Thesaurus / mauling
FEEDBACKsynonyms for mauling
synonyms for mauling
- beat up
- bludgeon
- drub
- lacerate
- molest
- mug
- pummel
- rough up
- thrash
- trample
- bang
- bash
- batter
- beat
- buffet
- claw
- clean
- flagellate
- flail
- hit
- hurt
- ill-treat
- lash
- maltreat
- muscle
- paste
- paw
- pelt
- pound
- skin
- wax
- whip
- break face
- handle roughly
- knock about
- knock around
- lean on
- let have it
- put in the hospital
- take care of
- work over
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By the time I am done I am "all het up" and feel like taking the club and giving them a good mauling.
THE RED COW AND HER FRIENDSPETER MCARTHURIn 1662 a mob assembled, dragged them out into the street, beating and mauling them severely, and killing one outright.
BYGONE LONDONFREDERICK ROSSAfter the fourth mauling he turned round and went back to Johannesburg, preferring to take his chances with the Boers.
A WOMAN'S PART IN A REVOLUTIONNATALIE HARRIS HAMMONDBut you shan't escape your misdemeanour in mauling those verses as you have done, by finding fault with my joke redevivus.
HANDY ANDY, VOLUME 2 (OF 2)SAMUEL LOVERShe had been a field-hand in North Carolina, and worked at cutting down trees, grubbing land, and mauling rails.
PALMETTO-LEAVESHARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe vicious, mauling wolf-pack of the river heaved us into the air, and worried us as we fell.
THE TRAIL OF '98ROBERT W. SERVICEBob had rolled to one side, out of harms way, and suffered no more than a rough mauling by the brute.
THE MOTOR BOYS OVERLANDCLARENCE YOUNGTo see two gentlemen of his acquaintance thus brutally mauling each other was deeply shocking to Harry.
THE BOY SCOUTS BOOK OF STORIESVARIOUSThe short, savage riffle formed by these had given us our first severe mauling on that earlier ride.
DOWN THE YELLOWSTONELEWIS R. FREEMANHe was a changed Peter, no longer satisfied with the thought of gnawing sticks or stones or mauling a rabbit skin.
THE COUNTRY BEYONDJAMES OLIVER CURWOOD