bemauling

Verb

bemaul (third-person singular simple present bemauls, present participle bemauling, simple past and past participle bemauled)

1. (transitive) To maul thoroughly or completely.
   • And yet, bemauled as the poor fellow had been, he seemed to glance at me with an eye of pity, as if my case were more deplorable than his.1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Mrs. Bullfrog”, in Mosses from an Old Manse