maul

Meanings

Plural: mauls

Noun

a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges
A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.
A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier.

Verb

split (wood) with a maul and wedges
injure badly by beating
To handle someone or something in a rough way.
To savage; to cause serious physical wounds (usually used of an animal).
To criticise harshly.
To beat with a maul.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English malle (“mace, maul”), from Anglo-Norman mail, from Old French mail, from Latin malleus (“hammer”). Doublet of malleus.

Synonyms

abuse, admonish, animadvert, annoy, bash, bawl out, berate, berisp, bewound, blast, castigate, censure, chastise, chew out, chide, club, condemn, criticize, damage, damnify, denounce, denunciate, dere, do damage to, do for, do ill, do violence to, drag, dress down, eat someone alive, excoriate, find fault, forwork, fulminate, get down, get up, give somebody a piece of one's mind, give somebody what-for, grieve, harm, harrow, hurt, injure, inveigh, lace into, lambaste, lecture, light into, mace, mangle, maul, misdo, mishandle, misuse, objurgate, pooh-pooh, put someone in hospital, put someone on blast, rate, read somebody the riot act, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, rip into, rubbish, savage, scaith, scathe, scold, slam, sledge, sledgehammer, tear into, tell off, threap, tick off, tosh, upbraid, vilify, vituperate, vulnerate, wet, wound

Scrabble Score: 6

maul is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
maul is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
maul is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

maul is a valid Words With Friends word