Synonyms of maul
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Another word for maul is abuse. Other synonyms of maul are hurt, damage, harm, wound and injure.
Synonyms and similar words for maul
nounA heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.
verbTo handle someone or something in a rough way.
verbTo savage; to cause serious physical wounds.
- harmTo damage, hurt, or injure something, usually an inanimate object.
- woundTo hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
- bewoundTo wound all over; cover or afflict with wounds.
- damageTo impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
- do damage to
- do for UKTo doom; to bring about the demise of someone; to injure or harm someone.
- do illTo harm, to injure.
- do violence toTo gravely harm.
- harrowTo break or tear, as if with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate.
- hurtTo cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
- injureTo wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
- put someone in hospital UKTo injure (someone) to the point that they need serious medical attention.
- scaith ScotlandTo injure; to wound.
- scatheTo harm or injure (someone or something) physically.
- wet slangTo kill or seriously injure.
- annoy archaicTo molest; to harm; to injure.
- damnify obsoleteTo damage physically; to injure.
- dere UK, archaicTo hurt; harm; injure; wound.
- forwork archaicTo do wrong to; injure; scathe.
- grieve archaicTo harm.
- mayhem archaicTo violently inflict injury on (someone); to injure, to wound.
- misdo archaicTo do harm to; to injure, mistreat.
- vulnerate archaicTo wound, cause to become vulnerable.
verbTo criticise harshly.
- castigate
- excoriate
- admonish
- animadvert
- bash
- bawl out
- tilt
- cannonadeTo discharge artillery fire upon.
- slash
- lash
- blame
- scorch informal
- blast
- berateTo chide or scold vehemently.
- censure
- charge
- chastise
- chew outTo lecture, scold, reprimand, or rebuke, especially in an angry tone of voice.
- chide
- condemn
- criticize
- denounce
- denunciateTo condemn openly.
- deprecate
- derogate
- dispraiseTo notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize.
- drag slang
- dress down
- eat someone alive
- find faultTo criticize something excessively.
- fulminate
- get at
- get down
- get up Australia
- give somebody a piece of one's mind
- give somebody what-for
- inveigh
- lace into
- lambaste
- lay into
- lecture
- light intoTo set upon or attack.
- objurgate
- pooh-poohTo dismiss idly with contempt or derision; to diminish.
- put someone on blast slangTo embarrass by publicly denouncing or exposing, especially by using social media.
- rate
- read somebody the riot act
- rebukeTo criticise harshly; to reprove.
- reprehendTo criticize, to reprove.
- reprimandTo reprove in a formal or official way.
- reproach
- reprove
- rip into
- rubbish Australia
- savage
- scold
- skewer figuratively
- slam
- slate
- tear intoTo subject to a heavy attack, physical or figurative.
- tell off
- threap
- tick off
- tosh
- keelhaul
- upbraid
- vilify
- vituperate
- berisp obsoleteTo censure; reprove.
Meaning of maul
- noun A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.
- noun A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier.
- noun The fruit of the Washingtonia species.
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