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- [mawl]
- /mɔl/
- /mɔːl/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [mawl]
- /mɔl/
Definitions of maul word
- noun maul a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges. 1
- noun maul Archaic. a heavy club or mace. 1
- verb with object maul to handle or use roughly: The book was badly mauled by its borrowers. 1
- verb with object maul to injure by a rough beating, shoving, or the like; bruise: to be mauled by an angry crowd. 1
- verb with object maul to split with a maul and wedge, as a wooden rail. 1
- noun maul (of an animal) wound (a person or animal) by scratching and tearing. 1
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Origin of maul
First appearance:
before 1200 One of the 9% oldest English words
1200-50; (noun) Middle English malle < Old French mail mallet, hammer < Latin malleus hammer; (v.) Middle English mallen < Old French maillier, derivative of noun
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Parts of speech for Maul
noun
adjective
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
maul popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 82% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
maul usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for maul
verb maul
- lacerate — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
- pummel — to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.
- drub — to beat with a stick or the like; cudgel; flog; thrash.
- mug — a drinking cup, usually cylindrical in shape, having a handle, and often of a heavy substance, as earthenware.
- bludgeon — To bludgeon someone means to hit them several times with a heavy object.
noun maul
- cowplop — a piece of cow dung; a cowpat
- potash — potassium carbonate, especially the crude impure form obtained from wood ashes.
- meadow muffin — (Informal) (US) cow pat.
- guano — a natural manure composed chiefly of the excrement of sea birds, found especially on islands near the Peruvian coast.
- manure — excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
Antonyms for maul
verb maul
- protect — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- surrender — to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy; to surrender the stolen goods to the police.
- aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
- assist — If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
- guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
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