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
• hit
• ill-treated
• lambasted
• clobbered
• assailed
• wronged
• oppressed
• jumped
• tormented
• drubbed
• ill-used
• roughhoused
• 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
• battered
• whipped
• pelted
• assaulted
• knocked
• slapped
• beat
• thumped
• punched
• hit
• smashed
• spanked
• slammed
• pummeled
• did
• bludgeoned
• batted
• bashed
• thrashed
• clubbed
• hided
• chopped
• buffeted
• hammered
• smacked
• flogged
• walloped
• wounded
• whacked
• paddled
• slated
• tanned
• punched out
• raided
• lathered
• lambasted
• curried
• belted
• boxed
• worked over
• drubbed
• switched
• swiped
• threshed
• tromped
• basted
• belabored
• laced
• stormed
• whupped
• whaled
• slogged
• birched
• roughed (up)
• fibbed
• whopped
• rushed
• swatted
• messed (up)
• clobbered
• pommeled
• bunged up
• cracked
• 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
• mangled
• maimed
• pounced (on or upon)
• whammed
• whomped
• flagellated
• lammed
• pistol-whipped
• cudgeled
• leathered
• blackjacked
• cowhided
• fustigated
• rawhided

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of mauled

The ban was previously enacted in 2009 after a resident was mauled by a pitbull. —Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026

The film features a scene in which Luke Skywalker is savagely mauled by the yetilike Wampa. —Sanat Pai Raikar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Mar. 2026

Fueled by those eagles, Åberg has mauled the par 5s to the tune of 8 under par, two strokes better than anyone else through two days. —Justin Ray, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2026

Suffice it to say, sweet Amy getting mauled to death rattles everyone at the Ridge. —Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026

There was a crisp new poster on the easel at the Werth practice facility that displayed the Big East Tournament trophy, not yet mauled in frustration and held together by tape like the regular-season version had been. —Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2026

The wild animals mauled and injured multiple cast members; in one instance, Diaz had to stop director Noel Marshall from internally bleeding. —Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026

An Arizona mother of two was mauled to death by three dogs in a horrific attack while protecting her son outside her mother’s Southern California home. —Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 4 Mar. 2026

The 2000s brought Nick Jans’ The Grizzly Maze, which painted a layered, nuanced portrait of Timothy Treadwell, a man who lived alongside coastal brown bears in Katmai Alaska for thirteen summers before being mauled by a bear in 2003. —Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026