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Definitions for Maul

[1] a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges.
[2] Archaic . a heavy club or mace.
[3] to handle or use roughly: The book was badly mauled by its borrowers.
[4] to injure by a rough beating, shoving, or the like; bruise: to be mauled by an angry crowd.
[5] to split with a maul and wedge, as a wooden rail.
[6] to handle clumsily; paw
[7] to batter or lacerate
[8] a heavy two-handed hammer suitable for driving piles, wedges, etc
[9] rugby a loose scrum that forms around a player who is holding the ball and on his feet

Words related to Maul

lacerate, pummel, drub, mug, bludgeon, trample, thrash, molest, pound, skin, whip, paw, pelt, maltreat, wax, hit, beat, flagellate, buffet, hurt

Words nearby Maul

mauger, maugham, maugre, maui, mauka, maul, maulana, mauldin, maulers, maulmain, maulstick

Origin of Maul

1200–50; (noun) Middle English malle < Old French mail mallet, hammer < Latin malleus hammer; (v.) Middle English mallen < Old French maillier, derivative of noun

Words that may be confused with Maul

mall, maul, maw

Other words from Maul

maul·er , noun
un·mauled , adjective

Word origin for Maul

C13: from Old French mail, from Latin malleus hammer. See mallet

Synonyms for Maul

beat up, bludgeon, drub, lacerate, molest, mug, pummel, rough up, thrash, trample, bang, bash, batter, beat, buffet, claw, clean, flagellate, flail, hit, hurt, ill-treat, lash, maltreat, muscle, paste, paw, pelt, pound, skin, wax, whip, break face, handle roughly, knock about, knock around, lean on, let have it, put in the hospital, take care of, work over