macing

Verb (1)

mace (third-person singular simple present maces, present participle macing, simple past and past participle maced)

1. To hit someone or something with a mace.

Verb (2)

mace (third-person singular simple present maces, present participle macing, simple past and past participle maced)

1. To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device.
2. (informal) To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.
   • When Reynaldo and Willie had burst into Larkey's drug store to confront him, the old man had maced Willie square in the eyes with an aerosol can of spermicidal birth-control foam.1989, Carl Hiaasen, chapter 22, in Skin Tight, New York: Ballantine Books

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