mauling in English

verb
1
(of an animal) wound (a person or animal) by scratching and tearing.
the herdsmen were mauled by lions
synonyms:savageattacktear to pieceslacerateclawscratch

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1. They face a mauling by last year's winners.

2. The play received a mauling from the critics.

3. Juppe got a mauling over the government's failure to fulfil its promises.

4. Her latest novel got a real mauling in the review that I read.

5. Synonyms for Brutalization include mistreatment, manhandling, beating, bullying, harm, injury, abuse, mauling, rough handling and roughing up

6. He was one of the most accomplished debaters in the Government but nothing would have saved him from the mauling.

7. Damage to the Shokaku and the mauling of the Zuikaku's air group meant that neither participated in the decisive Battle of Midway.

8. At the bottom of the garden his brethren of the cloth were submitting his character to a sustained and vicious mauling.

9. McAllister and his team-mates were made to squirm their way through a special screening of their 4-1 Saturday mauling by Middlesbrough.

10. The action was intense from start to finish in the co-branded WWE Backlash pay-per-view, as Roman Reigns endured an absolute mauling to conquer longtime adversary Samoa Joe, and the No Disqualification Match between WWE Champion AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura was so …

11. ‘One of the few Consolations was that its demolition was a long drawn out process, hindered by the very high quality of the original construction (plenty of concrete).’ ‘His performance was one of the Consolations of Ireland's mauling eight days ago and yesterday he accelerated the impression of an international career on the mend.’