MAULING Synonyms

• capable of wounding

• causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold

• resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree

• shedding tears

• marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid

• attack someone physically or emotionally

• launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with

• attack in speech or writing

• sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles

• a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something

• a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods

• a bird's foot

• move as if by clawing, seizing, or digging

• clutch as if in panic

• scratch, scrape, pull, or dig with claws or nails

• attack as if with claws

• bite or chew on with the teeth

• become ground down or deteriorate

• injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation

• clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers

• press with a mangle

• injure badly by beating

• alter so as to make unrecognizable

• damage or injure severely

• a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)

• the month following February and preceding April

• make imperfect

• destroy or injure severely

• the act of pouncing

• move down on as if in an attack

• a member of an uncivilized people

• a cruelly rapacious person

• (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

• wild and menacing

• without civilizing influences

• marked by extreme and violent energy

• attack brutally and fiercely

• criticize harshly or violently

• clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers

• press with a mangle

• injure badly by beating

• alter so as to make unrecognizable

• damage or injure severely

• a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow

• a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges

• transport in a sleigh

• ride in or travel with a sledge

• beat with a sledgehammer

• a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges

• beat with a sledgehammer