mauling

maul

(môl)

a. A heavy, long-handled hammer used especially to drive stakes, piles, or wedges.

b. A heavy hammer having a wedge-shaped head and used for splitting logs.

2. Sports

a. A play in Rugby in which a mass of players gathers around a ball carrier being tackled and attempts to gain possession of the ball when it is released.

b. The mass of players during such a play.

tr.v. mauled, maul·ing, mauls

a. To injure or mutilate, as by scratching or beating: stories of hikers mauled by wild animals; a boxer who mauled his opponent. See Synonyms at mangle¹.

b. To defeat handily: The home team was mauled in the season opener.

2. To handle or treat roughly, causing damage: The package was mauled by the careless messenger.

3. To split (wood) with a maul and wedge.

[Middle English malle, from Old French mail, from Latin malleus; see melə- in Indo-European roots.]

maul′er n.

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mauling

(ˈmɑːlɪŋ)

1. an instance of being criticized, or the act of criticizing

2. an instance of being seriously injured or damaged, or the act of seriously injuring or damaging

3. (General Sporting Terms) sport the act of defeating easily, or an instance of defeating or being defeated easily

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Translations

mauling

n to get a mauling (player, team) → vernichtend geschlagen werden; (author, book) → von der Kritik verrissen werden

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As an instance, this very morning Biddy, remembering a secret mauling at the hands of Lerumie, laid teeth into his naked calf and threw him sprawling into the water, trade-box, earthly possessions and all, and then laughed at him, sure in the protection of Mister Haggin who grinned at the episode.

Like a lioness, when the cook-boy had struck him with a stick to drive him out of the kitchen, had Biddy sprung upon the black, receiving without wince or whimper one straight blow from the stick, and then downing him and mauling him among his pots and pans until dragged (for the first time snarling) away by the unchiding Mister Haggin, who; however, administered sharp words to the cook- boy for daring to lift hand against a four-legged dog belonging to a god.

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If it hadn't been for him I'd have got a mauling. Alphonso gets these bad streaks just about every so often.

Flung out with such force as to be smashed against the near end of the cage, Michael fell to the floor, tried to spring up, but crumpled and sank down, his right shoulder streaming blood from a terrible mauling and crushing.

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Only Otobu remained to face the enemy, for the Englishman, already weak from his wounds and from the latest mauling he had received at the claws of the lion, had lost consciousness as he sank to the ground with this new hurt.

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It had lain dormant for some time following the painful mauling he had received that time he leaped among the apes of Kerchak clothed in the skin of Numa; but this joke was a decided success.

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Now it was a bejaune or yellow beak (as they called the new arrivals at the university), whom he had been mauling by way of welcome; a precious tradition which has been carefully preserved to our own day.

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At the sight of the thing--a man mauling with his bare hands one of the most relentless and fierce of the jungle carnivora--Mugambi's eyes bulged from their sockets, and from entertaining a sullen respect for the giant white man who had made him prisoner, the black felt an almost worshipping awe of Tarzan.

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What might have happened, but for a timely interruption, may only be surmised; but that the trainer would have received a severe mauling, if nothing more, was clearly indicated by the attitudes of the two who faced him.

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Four witnesses signed the affidavit while a USB, containing a copy of the closed-circuit television (CCTV) video that showed the mauling incident, was attached as evidence in the case.

Mauling victims file criminal raps vs 3 Cebu cops

Ten minutes later Field were in the lead with more mauling of the Lions.

Field maul Lions to claim bonus victory

For this, Falcon, who is reportedly in hidingfollowing the mauling incident, faces serious physical injuries charges in relation toRepublic Act 7610 or Special Protection of Children Against Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act.