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Synonyms and Antonyms of mauling
- demonstrators who claimed that they had been mauled by the police
abusing, ill-treating, ill-using, mistreating, misusing
bashing, battering, beating, buffeting, drubbing, lambasting, licking, pommeling (or pommelling), pounding, pummeling (also pummelling), slapping, thrashing
harming, hurting, injuring, wounding
oppressing, persecuting, wronging
ambushing, assailing, attacking
clobbering, fighting, ganging up (on), hitting, jumping, knocking
- the irate store owner was mauling the shoplifter when the police showed up
bashing, basting, battering, batting, beating, belaboring, belting, birching, bludgeoning, buffeting, bunging up, clubbing, currying, doing, drubbing, fibbing [British], flogging, hammering, hiding, lacing, lambasting, lashing, lathering, licking, messing (up), paddling, pelting, pommeling (or pommelling), pounding, pummeling (also pummelling), punching out, roughing (up), slating, slogging, switching, tanning, thrashing, threshing, thumping, tromping, walloping, whaling, whipping, whopping (or whapping), whupping, working over
assailing, assaulting, attacking, besetting, boxing, busting, chopping, clobbering, clouting, cracking, cudgeling (or cudgelling), cuffing, descending (on or upon), hitting, jumping (on), knocking, lamming, laying on, pasting, pouncing (on or upon), punching, raiding, rushing, slamming, slapping, smacking, smashing, socking, spanking, storming, swatting, swiping, thwacking, whacking, whamming, whomping
blackjacking, caning, cowhiding, flagellating, fustigating, horsewhipping, leathering, pistol-whipping, rawhiding, scourging, strapping
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