Chimpanzees have been known to maul their owners.
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Maul
//mɔːl//
Synonyms for "maul" (237 found)
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Strong matches (71)
Related words (118)
Verb(38 words)
lootmaimmake mincemeat ofmaltreatmanglemanhandlemeleemishandlemistreatmolestmugmutilateoutragepastepatterpeltpiercepillagepommelpound
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Noun(3 words)
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13 entriesTranslations
95 translations across 28 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- me ul verb (to criticise rudely)
Arabic
2 entries- فِطِّيس noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- ميقعة noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
Bashkir
2 entries- балға noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- сүкеш noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
Bulgarian
4 entries- меле noun (rugby)
- мачкам verb (savage)
- наранявам verb (savage)
- отнасям се грубо verb (handle in a rough way)
Catalan
3 entries- mall d'asclar noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- mall d'estellar noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- mol noun (rugby)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 大錘 /大锤 noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- 傷害 /伤害 verb (savage)
- 毆打 /殴打 verb (savage)
Czech
4 entries- kalač noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- hrubě zacházet verb (handle in a rough way)
- potrhat verb (savage)
- ztrhat verb (to criticise rudely)
Dutch
4 entries- kloofbijl noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- mishandelen verb (handle in a rough way)
- toetakelen verb (handle in a rough way)
- toetakelen verb (savage)
Finnish
4 entries- leka noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- moukari noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- lytätä verb (to criticise rudely)
- murjoa verb (handle in a rough way)
French
4 entries- merlin noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- amocher verb (savage)
- casser du sucre sur le dos de verb (to criticise rudely)
- maltraiter verb (handle in a rough way)
Galician
1 entries- marra noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
German
4 entries- Spalthammer noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- anmotzen verb (to criticise rudely)
- misshandeln verb (handle in a rough way)
- rücksichtslos anfassen verb (handle in a rough way)
Hungarian
1 entries- marcangol verb (savage)
Irish
2 entries- crág noun (rugby)
- smíste noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
Italian
4 entries- maglio noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- mazza noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- sbranare verb (savage)
- strapazzare verb (to criticise rudely)
Japanese
1 entries- 殴る verb (savage)
Lao
1 entries- ຕີ verb (savage)
Latvian
1 entries- veseris noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kovos kūjis noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
Māori
4 entries- ketuketunga noun (rugby)
- mōro noun (rugby)
- tā noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- haukeke verb (handle in a rough way)
Persian
1 entries- پلوک noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
Polish
1 entries- rozszarpać verb (savage)
Portuguese
4 entries- malho noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- marreta noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- malhar verb (savage)
- malhar verb (to criticise rudely)
Russian
4 entries- колу́н noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- кува́лда noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- схва́тка noun (rugby)
- искале́чить verb (savage)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- slac verb (handle in a rough way)
Spanish
4 entries- mallo noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- mandarria noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- maltratar verb (handle in a rough way)
- tarazar verb (savage)
Swedish
2 entries- mörbulta noun (rugby)
- släggyxa noun (heavy, long-handled hammer)
Thai
2 entries- ขย้ำ verb (savage)
- ตะครุบ verb (savage)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
"I want to see a dinosaur!" "Which one: the one that will brutally maul you or the one that will accidentally crush you beneath its feet?" "N-not all dinosaurs are like that!"
Source: tatoeba (8704810)
For some half-hour he tried to comfort himself with an idea that he could get hold of Captain Marrable and maul him; that it would be a thing permissible for him, a magistrate, to go forth with a whip and flog the man, and then perhaps shoot him, because the man had been fortunate in love where he had been unfortunate.
Source: tatoeba (11660522)
Translators are the sworn enemies of jokes; the exigencies of their deplorable trade cause them to maul the poor little things about while they are putting them into new clothes, and the result is death, or at the least an appearance of vacuous senescence; but jokes are only the crystallization of humour; it exists also in less tangible forms, such as style and all that collection of effects vaguely lumped together and called "atmosphere."
Source: tatoeba (11663712)
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