Definitions of maul [ɔl]

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Definition of 'maul'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) maul
a heavy hammer often with a wooden head used esp. for driving stakes or wedges.

2. (v.t.) maul
to use roughly; manhandle.

3. maul
to injure by rough treatment.

Etymology: (1200–50; ME malle < OF mail mallet, hammer < L malleus)

Definition of 'maul'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) maul, sledge, sledgehammer
a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges

2. (verb) maul
split (wood) with a maul and wedges

3. (verb) maul, mangle
injure badly by beating

Definition of 'maul'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) maul
a heavy wooden hammer or beetle

2. (verb) maul
to beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner

3. (verb) maul
to injure greatly; to do much harm to

Translation of 'maul'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: (especially of an animal) to injure (a person or animal) usually badly He was badly mauled by an angry lion.
Afrikaans: moker	Arabic: يَنْهَش، يَجْرَح، يَشْلَخ	Bulgarian: ранявам
Brazilian: ferir	Czech: zle zřídit	German: übel zurichten
Danish: mishandle	Greek: καταξεσκίζω	Spanish: herir, magullar
Estonian: (puruks) kiskuma	Farsi: صدمه دیدن	Finnish: raadella
French: lacérer	Hebrew: לְשַׁסֵע	Hindi: क्षतविक्षत करना
Croatian: izbiti, izmlatiti	Hungarian: (szt)marcangol	Indonesian: menganiaya, menyakiti
Icelandic: misþyrma	Italian: straziare	Japanese: ひどく傷つける
Korean: 다치게 하다	Lithuanian: sumaitoti, sužaloti	Latvian: []plosīt; []kropļot
Malay: melukai	Dutch: toetakelen	Norwegian: skamfere, mishandle
Polish: pokaleczyć	Persian: صدمه دیدن	Pashto: زيانمنيدل
Portuguese: ferir	Romanian: a schilodi	Russian: терзать, калечить
Slovak: doriadiť	Slovenian: zmrcvariti	Serbian: teško povrediti
Swedish: illa tilltyga, mörbulta	Thai: (สัตว์) กัดฉีก	Turkish: yaralamak
Taiwanese: (尤指被動物)嚴重傷害	Ukrainian: бити; калічити	Urdu: بری طرح سے زخمی کرنا
Vietnamese: đối xử thô bạo	Chinese: （尤指被动物）伤害
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