
1) Attacking savagely 2) Overwhelming defeat
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• (n.) A severe beating with a stick, cudgel, or the fist. • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Maul
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Maul'ing noun A severe beating with a stick, cudgel, or the fist.
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maul, mauled, mauling, mauls, mauler (one who mauls) 1. To beat, batter, or tear at a person or animal: 'The San Francisco Zoo was closed to visitors Wednesday (December 26, 2007) as investigators tried to determine how a tiger escaped from its enclosue and attacked three visitors, killing one man and mauling another two. Last year, Tatiana, a Sibe...
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