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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abrade, abuse, assault, attack, bang, barbarize, bark, bash, baste, batter, beat, blemish, bloody, break, broil, bruise, brutalize, buffet, bung, bung up, burn, butcher, carry on, chafe, check, chip, claw, contuse, crack, craze, cut, destroy, do violence to, do wrong by, do wrong to, dogfight, donnybrook, drub, flagellate, flail, flap, fracas, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, gall, gash, go on, hammer, hurt, ill-treat, ill-use, incise, injure, knock, knock about, lacerate, lambaste, larrup, lash, lay waste, loot, maim, make mincemeat of, maltreat, mangle, manhandle, melee, mishandle, mistreat, molest, mug, mutilate, outrage, paste, patter, pelt, pierce, pillage, pommel, pound, pulverize, pummel, puncture, rage, ramp, rampage, rant, rap, rape, rave, rend, riot, rip, roar, rough, rough up, row, ruction, ruin, run, rupture, sack, savage, scald, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, scuff, set-to, skin, slash, slaughter, sledgehammer, slit, sow chaos, spank, sprain, stab, stick, storm, strain, tear, tear around, terrorize, thrash, thresh, thump, traumatize, vandalize, violate, wallop, whip, wound, wreck, wrench
Dictionary Results for maul:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
maul
    n 1: a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges
         [syn: maul, sledge, sledgehammer]
    v 1: split (wood) with a maul and wedges
    2: injure badly by beating [syn: maul, mangle]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mall \Mall\ (m[add]l; 277), n. [Written also maul.] [OE.
   malle, F. mail, L. malleus. Cf. Malleus.]
   1. A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything
      with force; a maul. --Addison.
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   2. A heavy blow. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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   3. An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See
      Pall-mall. --Cotton.
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   4. A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public
      walk; a level shaded walk.
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            Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and
            planted with elms; and these convenient and
            frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall.
                                                  --Southey.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Maul \Maul\, n. [See Mall a hammer.]
   A heavy wooden hammer or beetle. [Written also mall.]
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Maul \Maul\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mauled; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Mauling.]
   1. To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound
      in a coarse manner.
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            Meek modern faith to murder, hack, and maul. --Pope.
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   2. To injure greatly; to do much harm to.
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            It mauls not only the person misrepreseted, but him
            also to whom he is misrepresented.    --South.
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5. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Maul
   an old name for a mallet, the rendering of the Hebrew mephits
   (Prov. 25:18), properly a war-club.
   

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