Definition of maul in English:

maul

verb mɔːlmɔl

[with object]

1(of an animal) wound (a person or animal) by scratching and tearing.
（动物）咬伤，抓伤
a man was mauled by a lion at London Zoo
一名男子在伦敦动物园被狮子咬伤。
Example sentencesExamples
- You see from time to time children being mauled by dogs.
- As for personal experience, I was once nearly mauled by a bear while camping.
- A mother whose two dogs mauled a young girl today pleaded for them not to be destroyed and claimed: ‘My dogs are not dangerous.’
- We would tell them that an animal has mauled a person at the zoo and they would have to find out from the footprints and animal imprints what kind of animal did it.
- They would gang up on a lone rhino and maul it to death.
- Calls have been made for a change in the law on dangerous dogs after a 12-year-old boy was savagely mauled.
- As the world knows, he was mauled on stage last month by one of his pets.
- The beast just overwhelmed him, just mauled him as he slept.
- The patient was mauled by a pet Labrador in June, leaving her with severe facial injuries that her doctors said made it difficult for her to speak and eat.
- How could I not feel so bad when I had just found out my brother was mauled by two dogs?
- Why should he risk being mauled to death if he doesn't need to?
- He won't maul intruders, but he won't leave surprises on the carpet either.
- Bears shall maul the wicked, and the wolves shall consume them.
- At Babylon there is a famous basalt statue of a man being mauled by a lion.
- We had to get rid of her though after she almost mauled the mailman.
- A fourth person was mauled to death by a crocodile, the paper reported.
- Her hands and feet were also badly mauled by stray dogs.
- A woman has told today how her pet dog's life is hanging in the balance after it was badly mauled by another canine in an unprovoked attack.
- Trembling slightly, Ian continued to crouch down, doubled-up in an almost foetal position, and waited to be mauled.
- Dogs and foxes always go for the neck, but this time whatever attacked the sheep pounced on it from behind, pinning it down and mauling both sides of the back.
Synonyms
savage, attack, tear to pieces, lacerate, claw, mutilate, mangle, scratch
1. 1.1 Treat (something) savagely or roughly.
  粗暴对待
  the body was badly mauled in battle
  Example sentencesExamples
  This comes after the Opposition was mauled yesterday in Question Time when Labor backbenchers were really looking to make budgetary inroads on the equity angle.
  ‘We all had it,’ she says, sitting on a rug in front of her mud hut while her granddaughter mauls a stalk of sugarcane.
  Sometimes I feel like a cat that is being mauled by a small child.
  But the guilt has been creeping up on me, grasping at my skin, gnawing away at my bones, chewing on my heart, mauling my conscience, and spitting out my toenails one by one.
  Only days before Custer's loss, Crook's cavalry was mauled near the Rosebud River.
  Some more chaste readers may blanch at this next revelation, but I maul books: I scribble in margins, bend pages, use inside covers as note-pads.
  This was a response to another government institution mauling community activities and local concerns.
  Right when I walked into the gymnasium, I was practically mauled by Rory and Sara.
  More riots are expected as a 30% transport and bread price increase mauls family budgets.
  In best campfire tradition, we tell stories - not ghost stories, but mauling stories.
  So when a little boy mauled his science notebook, scrawled a message on one of the pages, and rushed into the shot, he was severely reprimanded.
  This was not the first time Darwin had been severely damaged by a cyclone: it was badly mauled in both January 1897 and March 1937.
  Synonyms
  molest, feel, fondle
2. 1.2 Handle (someone) roughly, especially for sexual gratification.
  粗暴玩弄（尤指为性满足）
  the last thing I wanted to do was have a slobbering drunk mauling me
  Example sentencesExamples
  After the third time we hung out, we were lying on her bed at like three in the morning and all of a sudden, she just mauls me.
  I want to make you know about sex, to feel thrilling climaxes - not let you learn about it by being mauled by some brutal man.
  She herself enjoys a few moments of heightened sexual pleasure, and she enthusiastically mauls a couple of obnoxious idiots.
  Just because someone is willing to see what you're like to kiss does not mean you have an open invitation to maul him or her.
  The way she mauls the sympathetic doctor suggests she is a victim of the solitude that afflicts all these characters.
  Synonyms
  molest, feel, fondle
3. 1.3informal Defeat heavily in a game or match.
  〈非正式〉（比赛）惨败
  the team were mauled 4-0 by Manchester City
  该队被曼城队以4比0打得惨败。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A 60 points mauling at Hull on Sunday doesn't suggest some of his team have the stomach for a fight.
  His fury came as his side went down to their biggest home defeat since the 53-25 mauling by Exeter in 1977.
  They approached this game with some trepidation following a 6-1 mauling at the hands of the same opposition only three weeks earlier.
  Wales have shown signs of recovering from the terrible mauling they received at the hands of an Irish side that was, in turn, given something of a good hiding by England at Twickenham.
  The last thing Manchester need is a mauling from a side that has stacked up more than 500 points this season.
4. 1.4 Subject to fierce criticism.
  抨击，责难
  during the trial she was mauled by the media
  Example sentencesExamples
  If a book has been mauled by our critics, one can hardly expect the massacre to be put on display in a shop aiming to shift copies of the offending item.
  It is attracting much controversy, as well as being mauled by the movie critics.
  Despite it all, he wrote a fictionalised account of his disastrous passion and was promptly mauled by critics and friends alike.
  She understood his work, read his proofs and even took over his correspondence when he became ill after publishing the Origin of Species which he feared would receive a critical mauling.
  Despite being mauled by critics, it managed to exceed box office expectations in its opening weekend.
  Synonyms
  criticize, denigrate, attack, censure, condemn, find fault with, give a bad press to, pillory, lambaste, flay, savage
  informal knock, slam, pan, bash, take/pull to pieces, take apart, crucify, hammer, lay into, roast, skewer
  British informal slate, rubbish, slag off, monster
  North American informal pummel, cut up
  Australian/New Zealand informal bag
  rare excoriate
5. 1.5Rugby no object Take part in a maul.
  〔英橄〕围挤抢球
  the forwards rucked and mauled to near perfection
  Example sentencesExamples
  The pack were excellent throughout, controlling the scrum and lineouts and aggressively rucking and mauling.
  The home team had plenty of early possession, and adopted the obvious tactics of hitting the ball up close to ruck and maul via their big men.
  Missing some key men among six absent first-team regulars, they suffered in the set scrummage but rucked and mauled well.
  The forwards rucked and mauled to near perfection although they did not dominate the lineout like they can do.
  With an all new control system that is intuitive and user friendly, players will be rucking, mauling, and kicking like champions in no time.

noun mɔːlmɔl

1(in rugby union) a loose scrum formed around a player with the ball off the ground.
〔英橄〕围挤抢球。比较 RUCK ¹
Compare with ruck
Example sentencesExamples
- The grounding of the ball in a driven maul satisfied the touch judge, but not the referee, and another chance disappeared.
- Furthermore, the driving maul and the scrum began to gain ground and the backs started running on to the ball.
- Little headway was made in the maul but the ball was switched across the field.
- They then executed a well-controlled maul before the ball was flashed out to the opposite flank.
- I have proposed that the offside line at a maul should be the ball.
2
another term for beetle (sense 1 of the noun)

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'hammer or wooden club', also 'strike with a heavy weapon'): from Old French mail, from Latin malleus 'hammer'.

mall from mid 17th century:
The game pall-mall was popular in the 17th century. Players used a mallet to drive a boxwood ball through an iron ring suspended at the end of a long alley, itself also called a pall-mall. The game got its name, via French, from the Italian for ‘ball’ and ‘mallet’. Pall Mall, a street in central London known for its large number of private clubs and formerly a fashionable place to promenade, was originally a pall-mall for the game. From the 18th century other sheltered places for walking came to be called malls—the first reference to a mall for shopping dates from 1950 in the USA. Malleable (Late Middle English) got its name from the same source as mall, for it originally meant ‘able to be hammered’ and goes back, like mallet (Late Middle English) and maul (Middle English), to Latin malleus ‘hammer’.

Rhymes

all, appal (US appall), awl, Bacall, ball, bawl, befall, Bengal, brawl, call, caul, crawl, Donegal, drawl, drywall, enthral (US enthrall), fall, forestall, gall, Galle, Gaul, hall, haul, miaul, miscall, Montreal, Naipaul, Nepal, orle, pall, Paul, pawl, Saul, schorl, scrawl, seawall, Senegal, shawl, small, sprawl, squall, stall, stonewall, tall, thrall, trawl, wall, waul, wherewithal, withal, yawl

Definition of maul in US English:

maul

verbmôlmɔl

[with object]

1(of an animal) wound (a person or animal) by scratching and tearing.
（动物）咬伤，抓伤
the herdsmen were mauled by lions
Example sentencesExamples
- Her hands and feet were also badly mauled by stray dogs.
- The beast just overwhelmed him, just mauled him as he slept.
- At Babylon there is a famous basalt statue of a man being mauled by a lion.
- A fourth person was mauled to death by a crocodile, the paper reported.
- You see from time to time children being mauled by dogs.
- Why should he risk being mauled to death if he doesn't need to?
- We would tell them that an animal has mauled a person at the zoo and they would have to find out from the footprints and animal imprints what kind of animal did it.
- As the world knows, he was mauled on stage last month by one of his pets.
- Dogs and foxes always go for the neck, but this time whatever attacked the sheep pounced on it from behind, pinning it down and mauling both sides of the back.
- We had to get rid of her though after she almost mauled the mailman.
- A mother whose two dogs mauled a young girl today pleaded for them not to be destroyed and claimed: ‘My dogs are not dangerous.’
- How could I not feel so bad when I had just found out my brother was mauled by two dogs?
- The patient was mauled by a pet Labrador in June, leaving her with severe facial injuries that her doctors said made it difficult for her to speak and eat.
- A woman has told today how her pet dog's life is hanging in the balance after it was badly mauled by another canine in an unprovoked attack.
- As for personal experience, I was once nearly mauled by a bear while camping.
- Calls have been made for a change in the law on dangerous dogs after a 12-year-old boy was savagely mauled.
- Bears shall maul the wicked, and the wolves shall consume them.
- He won't maul intruders, but he won't leave surprises on the carpet either.
- Trembling slightly, Ian continued to crouch down, doubled-up in an almost foetal position, and waited to be mauled.
- They would gang up on a lone rhino and maul it to death.
Synonyms
savage, attack, tear to pieces, lacerate, claw, mutilate, mangle, scratch
1. 1.1 Treat (someone or something) roughly.
  粗暴对待
  Example sentencesExamples
  This was not the first time Darwin had been severely damaged by a cyclone: it was badly mauled in both January 1897 and March 1937.
  Only days before Custer's loss, Crook's cavalry was mauled near the Rosebud River.
  But the guilt has been creeping up on me, grasping at my skin, gnawing away at my bones, chewing on my heart, mauling my conscience, and spitting out my toenails one by one.
  Right when I walked into the gymnasium, I was practically mauled by Rory and Sara.
  In best campfire tradition, we tell stories - not ghost stories, but mauling stories.
  Some more chaste readers may blanch at this next revelation, but I maul books: I scribble in margins, bend pages, use inside covers as note-pads.
  This comes after the Opposition was mauled yesterday in Question Time when Labor backbenchers were really looking to make budgetary inroads on the equity angle.
  More riots are expected as a 30% transport and bread price increase mauls family budgets.
  ‘We all had it,’ she says, sitting on a rug in front of her mud hut while her granddaughter mauls a stalk of sugarcane.
  This was a response to another government institution mauling community activities and local concerns.
  Sometimes I feel like a cat that is being mauled by a small child.
  So when a little boy mauled his science notebook, scrawled a message on one of the pages, and rushed into the shot, he was severely reprimanded.
  Synonyms
  molest, feel, fondle
2. 1.2informal Defeat heavily in a game or match.
  〈非正式〉（比赛）惨败
  the team were mauled 4-0 by Manchester City
  该队被曼城队以4比0打得惨败。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Wales have shown signs of recovering from the terrible mauling they received at the hands of an Irish side that was, in turn, given something of a good hiding by England at Twickenham.
  His fury came as his side went down to their biggest home defeat since the 53-25 mauling by Exeter in 1977.
  A 60 points mauling at Hull on Sunday doesn't suggest some of his team have the stomach for a fight.
  The last thing Manchester need is a mauling from a side that has stacked up more than 500 points this season.
  They approached this game with some trepidation following a 6-1 mauling at the hands of the same opposition only three weeks earlier.

nounmôlmɔl

A tool with a heavy head and a handle, used for tasks such as ramming, crushing, and driving wedges; a beetle.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘hammer or wooden club’, also ‘strike with a heavy weapon’): from Old French mail, from Latin malleus ‘hammer’.

单词	maul
释义	Definition of maul in English: maul verb mɔːlmɔl [with object] 1(of an animal) wound (a person or animal) by scratching and tearing. （动物）咬伤，抓伤 a man was mauled by a lion at London Zoo 一名男子在伦敦动物园被狮子咬伤。 Example sentencesExamples You see from time to time children being mauled by dogs. As for personal experience, I was once nearly mauled by a bear while camping. A mother whose two dogs mauled a young girl today pleaded for them not to be destroyed and claimed: ‘My dogs are not dangerous.’ We would tell them that an animal has mauled a person at the zoo and they would have to find out from the footprints and animal imprints what kind of animal did it. They would gang up on a lone rhino and maul it to death. Calls have been made for a change in the law on dangerous dogs after a 12-year-old boy was savagely mauled. As the world knows, he was mauled on stage last month by one of his pets. The beast just overwhelmed him, just mauled him as he slept. The patient was mauled by a pet Labrador in June, leaving her with severe facial injuries that her doctors said made it difficult for her to speak and eat. How could I not feel so bad when I had just found out my brother was mauled by two dogs? Why should he risk being mauled to death if he doesn't need to? He won't maul intruders, but he won't leave surprises on the carpet either. Bears shall maul the wicked, and the wolves shall consume them. At Babylon there is a famous basalt statue of a man being mauled by a lion. We had to get rid of her though after she almost mauled the mailman. A fourth person was mauled to death by a crocodile, the paper reported. Her hands and feet were also badly mauled by stray dogs. A woman has told today how her pet dog's life is hanging in the balance after it was badly mauled by another canine in an unprovoked attack. Trembling slightly, Ian continued to crouch down, doubled-up in an almost foetal position, and waited to be mauled. Dogs and foxes always go for the neck, but this time whatever attacked the sheep pounced on it from behind, pinning it down and mauling both sides of the back. Synonyms savage, attack, tear to pieces, lacerate, claw, mutilate, mangle, scratch 1.1 Treat (something) savagely or roughly. 粗暴对待 the body was badly mauled in battle Example sentencesExamples This comes after the Opposition was mauled yesterday in Question Time when Labor backbenchers were really looking to make budgetary inroads on the equity angle. ‘We all had it,’ she says, sitting on a rug in front of her mud hut while her granddaughter mauls a stalk of sugarcane. Sometimes I feel like a cat that is being mauled by a small child. But the guilt has been creeping up on me, grasping at my skin, gnawing away at my bones, chewing on my heart, mauling my conscience, and spitting out my toenails one by one. Only days before Custer's loss, Crook's cavalry was mauled near the Rosebud River. Some more chaste readers may blanch at this next revelation, but I maul books: I scribble in margins, bend pages, use inside covers as note-pads. This was a response to another government institution mauling community activities and local concerns. Right when I walked into the gymnasium, I was practically mauled by Rory and Sara. More riots are expected as a 30% transport and bread price increase mauls family budgets. In best campfire tradition, we tell stories - not ghost stories, but mauling stories. So when a little boy mauled his science notebook, scrawled a message on one of the pages, and rushed into the shot, he was severely reprimanded. This was not the first time Darwin had been severely damaged by a cyclone: it was badly mauled in both January 1897 and March 1937. Synonyms molest, feel, fondle 1.2 Handle (someone) roughly, especially for sexual gratification. 粗暴玩弄（尤指为性满足） the last thing I wanted to do was have a slobbering drunk mauling me Example sentencesExamples After the third time we hung out, we were lying on her bed at like three in the morning and all of a sudden, she just mauls me. I want to make you know about sex, to feel thrilling climaxes - not let you learn about it by being mauled by some brutal man. She herself enjoys a few moments of heightened sexual pleasure, and she enthusiastically mauls a couple of obnoxious idiots. Just because someone is willing to see what you're like to kiss does not mean you have an open invitation to maul him or her. The way she mauls the sympathetic doctor suggests she is a victim of the solitude that afflicts all these characters. Synonyms molest, feel, fondle 1.3informal Defeat heavily in a game or match. 〈非正式〉（比赛）惨败 the team were mauled 4-0 by Manchester City 该队被曼城队以4比0打得惨败。 Example sentencesExamples A 60 points mauling at Hull on Sunday doesn't suggest some of his team have the stomach for a fight. His fury came as his side went down to their biggest home defeat since the 53-25 mauling by Exeter in 1977. They approached this game with some trepidation following a 6-1 mauling at the hands of the same opposition only three weeks earlier. Wales have shown signs of recovering from the terrible mauling they received at the hands of an Irish side that was, in turn, given something of a good hiding by England at Twickenham. The last thing Manchester need is a mauling from a side that has stacked up more than 500 points this season. 1.4 Subject to fierce criticism. 抨击，责难 during the trial she was mauled by the media Example sentencesExamples If a book has been mauled by our critics, one can hardly expect the massacre to be put on display in a shop aiming to shift copies of the offending item. It is attracting much controversy, as well as being mauled by the movie critics. Despite it all, he wrote a fictionalised account of his disastrous passion and was promptly mauled by critics and friends alike. She understood his work, read his proofs and even took over his correspondence when he became ill after publishing the Origin of Species which he feared would receive a critical mauling. Despite being mauled by critics, it managed to exceed box office expectations in its opening weekend. Synonyms criticize, denigrate, attack, censure, condemn, find fault with, give a bad press to, pillory, lambaste, flay, savage informal knock, slam, pan, bash, take/pull to pieces, take apart, crucify, hammer, lay into, roast, skewer British informal slate, rubbish, slag off, monster North American informal pummel, cut up Australian/New Zealand informal bag rare excoriate 1.5Rugby no object Take part in a maul. 〔英橄〕围挤抢球 the forwards rucked and mauled to near perfection Example sentencesExamples The pack were excellent throughout, controlling the scrum and lineouts and aggressively rucking and mauling. The home team had plenty of early possession, and adopted the obvious tactics of hitting the ball up close to ruck and maul via their big men. Missing some key men among six absent first-team regulars, they suffered in the set scrummage but rucked and mauled well. The forwards rucked and mauled to near perfection although they did not dominate the lineout like they can do. With an all new control system that is intuitive and user friendly, players will be rucking, mauling, and kicking like champions in no time. noun mɔːlmɔl 1(in rugby union) a loose scrum formed around a player with the ball off the ground. 〔英橄〕围挤抢球。比较 RUCK ¹ Compare with ruck Example sentencesExamples The grounding of the ball in a driven maul satisfied the touch judge, but not the referee, and another chance disappeared. Furthermore, the driving maul and the scrum began to gain ground and the backs started running on to the ball. Little headway was made in the maul but the ball was switched across the field. They then executed a well-controlled maul before the ball was flashed out to the opposite flank. I have proposed that the offside line at a maul should be the ball. 2 another term for beetle (sense 1 of the noun) Origin Middle English (in the sense 'hammer or wooden club', also 'strike with a heavy weapon'): from Old French mail, from Latin malleus 'hammer'. mall from mid 17th century: The game pall-mall was popular in the 17th century. Players used a mallet to drive a boxwood ball through an iron ring suspended at the end of a long alley, itself also called a pall-mall. The game got its name, via French, from the Italian for ‘ball’ and ‘mallet’. Pall Mall, a street in central London known for its large number of private clubs and formerly a fashionable place to promenade, was originally a pall-mall for the game. From the 18th century other sheltered places for walking came to be called malls—the first reference to a mall for shopping dates from 1950 in the USA. Malleable (Late Middle English) got its name from the same source as mall, for it originally meant ‘able to be hammered’ and goes back, like mallet (Late Middle English) and maul (Middle English), to Latin malleus ‘hammer’. Rhymes all, appal (US appall), awl, Bacall, ball, bawl, befall, Bengal, brawl, call, caul, crawl, Donegal, drawl, drywall, enthral (US enthrall), fall, forestall, gall, Galle, Gaul, hall, haul, miaul, miscall, Montreal, Naipaul, Nepal, orle, pall, Paul, pawl, Saul, schorl, scrawl, seawall, Senegal, shawl, small, sprawl, squall, stall, stonewall, tall, thrall, trawl, wall, waul, wherewithal, withal, yawl Definition of maul in US English: maul verbmôlmɔl [with object] 1(of an animal) wound (a person or animal) by scratching and tearing. （动物）咬伤，抓伤 the herdsmen were mauled by lions Example sentencesExamples Her hands and feet were also badly mauled by stray dogs. The beast just overwhelmed him, just mauled him as he slept. At Babylon there is a famous basalt statue of a man being mauled by a lion. A fourth person was mauled to death by a crocodile, the paper reported. You see from time to time children being mauled by dogs. Why should he risk being mauled to death if he doesn't need to? We would tell them that an animal has mauled a person at the zoo and they would have to find out from the footprints and animal imprints what kind of animal did it. As the world knows, he was mauled on stage last month by one of his pets. Dogs and foxes always go for the neck, but this time whatever attacked the sheep pounced on it from behind, pinning it down and mauling both sides of the back. We had to get rid of her though after she almost mauled the mailman. A mother whose two dogs mauled a young girl today pleaded for them not to be destroyed and claimed: ‘My dogs are not dangerous.’ How could I not feel so bad when I had just found out my brother was mauled by two dogs? The patient was mauled by a pet Labrador in June, leaving her with severe facial injuries that her doctors said made it difficult for her to speak and eat. A woman has told today how her pet dog's life is hanging in the balance after it was badly mauled by another canine in an unprovoked attack. As for personal experience, I was once nearly mauled by a bear while camping. Calls have been made for a change in the law on dangerous dogs after a 12-year-old boy was savagely mauled. Bears shall maul the wicked, and the wolves shall consume them. He won't maul intruders, but he won't leave surprises on the carpet either. Trembling slightly, Ian continued to crouch down, doubled-up in an almost foetal position, and waited to be mauled. They would gang up on a lone rhino and maul it to death. Synonyms savage, attack, tear to pieces, lacerate, claw, mutilate, mangle, scratch 1.1 Treat (someone or something) roughly. 粗暴对待 Example sentencesExamples This was not the first time Darwin had been severely damaged by a cyclone: it was badly mauled in both January 1897 and March 1937. Only days before Custer's loss, Crook's cavalry was mauled near the Rosebud River. But the guilt has been creeping up on me, grasping at my skin, gnawing away at my bones, chewing on my heart, mauling my conscience, and spitting out my toenails one by one. Right when I walked into the gymnasium, I was practically mauled by Rory and Sara. In best campfire tradition, we tell stories - not ghost stories, but mauling stories. Some more chaste readers may blanch at this next revelation, but I maul books: I scribble in margins, bend pages, use inside covers as note-pads. This comes after the Opposition was mauled yesterday in Question Time when Labor backbenchers were really looking to make budgetary inroads on the equity angle. More riots are expected as a 30% transport and bread price increase mauls family budgets. ‘We all had it,’ she says, sitting on a rug in front of her mud hut while her granddaughter mauls a stalk of sugarcane. This was a response to another government institution mauling community activities and local concerns. Sometimes I feel like a cat that is being mauled by a small child. So when a little boy mauled his science notebook, scrawled a message on one of the pages, and rushed into the shot, he was severely reprimanded. Synonyms molest, feel, fondle 1.2informal Defeat heavily in a game or match. 〈非正式〉（比赛）惨败 the team were mauled 4-0 by Manchester City 该队被曼城队以4比0打得惨败。 Example sentencesExamples Wales have shown signs of recovering from the terrible mauling they received at the hands of an Irish side that was, in turn, given something of a good hiding by England at Twickenham. His fury came as his side went down to their biggest home defeat since the 53-25 mauling by Exeter in 1977. A 60 points mauling at Hull on Sunday doesn't suggest some of his team have the stomach for a fight. The last thing Manchester need is a mauling from a side that has stacked up more than 500 points this season. They approached this game with some trepidation following a 6-1 mauling at the hands of the same opposition only three weeks earlier. nounmôlmɔl A tool with a heavy head and a handle, used for tasks such as ramming, crushing, and driving wedges; a beetle. Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘hammer or wooden club’, also ‘strike with a heavy weapon’): from Old French mail, from Latin malleus ‘hammer’.
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