Synonyms of mauled

mauled

verb

past tense of maul

1

as in abused

to abuse physically

demonstrators who claimed that they had been mauled by the police

Synonyms & Similar Words

• abused
• attacked
• manhandled
• ambushed
• injured
• tortured
• maltreated
• mishandled
• wounded
• beat
• battered
• hurt
• slapped
• roughed (up)
• pummeled
• licked
• mistreated
• wrestled
• thrashed
• knocked
• harmed
• fought
• persecuted
• buffeted
• bashed
• misused
• pounded
• pummelled
• hit
• ill-treated
• lambasted
• clobbered
• assailed
• wronged
• oppressed
• jumped
• tormented
• drubbed
• ill-used
• roughhoused
• pommelled
• pommeled
• ganged up (on)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• caressed
• petted
• fondled
• pampered
• coddled
• fostered
• nurtured
• cared (for)
• mollycoddled

2

as in licked

to strike repeatedly

the irate store owner was mauling the shoplifter when the police showed up

Synonyms & Similar Words

• licked
• pounded
• lashed
• attacked
• whipped
• battered
• pelted
• knocked
• slapped
• assaulted
• beat
• punched
• smashed
• hit
• spanked
• thumped
• slammed
• did
• pummeled
• batted
• bludgeoned
• pummelled
• bashed
• chopped
• hided
• thrashed
• clubbed
• buffeted
• hammered
• smacked
• flogged
• wounded
• walloped
• whacked
• paddled
• raided
• slated
• tanned
• punched out
• whupped
• lathered
• lambasted
• curried
• boxed
• belted
• worked over
• drubbed
• whapped
• switched
• threshed
• laced
• tromped
• stormed
• swiped
• basted
• belabored
• whaled
• slogged
• birched
• roughed (up)
• fibbed
• whopped
• pommelled
• rushed
• messed (up)
• clobbered
• cracked
• pommeled
• swatted
• bunged up
• pasted
• assailed
• strapped
• cuffed
• socked
• beat up on
• descended (on or upon)
• laid on
• beset
• scourged
• jumped (on)
• gored
• mutilated
• busted
• caned
• thwacked
• lacerated
• clouted
• horsewhipped
• cudgelled
• mangled
• maimed
• pounced (on or upon)
• whammed
• whomped
• flagellated
• bust
• lammed
• pistol-whipped
• cudgeled
• leathered
• blackjacked
• cowhided
• fustigated
• rawhided