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mauled

[ mawld ]

adjective

  1. harshly treated:

    The critically mauled movie sequel has also led to countless parodies and imitations.

  2. badly injured or damaged:

    In the aftermath of the fox’s visit, Robin found half her chickens missing and a badly mauled rooster inside the chicken house itself.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of maul ( def ).
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Other Word Forms

  • ܲ·ܱ adjective
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Matthew, as his own son Trev would later reflect, had always “felt mauled by Aldous and burdened by his massive family legacy,” as he said in a video interview in December, 2023.

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The Slovak cabinet has approved a plan to shoot around a quarter of the country's brown bears, after a man was mauled to death while walking in a forest in Central Slovakia.

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He mentioned the Golden Gophers having beaten conference front-runner Michigan, their excellent help defense and their having mauled USC in the paint last weekend during a victory at the Galen Center.

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When Blake gets initially mauled, the swirling cinematography is so hard to understand that, for good measure, a few beats later he gets mauled again.

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Lisa Willis, who was mauled by an XL bully months after the ban, said the attack had felt like a "horror movie" and the law was "useless".

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