mauling synonyms

mauling

n.

clubbing, whipping, beating, man-handling, drubbing, thrashing, threshing, pummeling, thumping, pounding, strapping, ill-treatment, flogging, licking, trouncing, chastisement, caning, rawhiding; see also defeat 3.

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