bemaul
English
Verb
bemaul (third-person singular simple present bemauls, present participle bemauling, simple past and past participle bemauled)
- (transitive) To maul thoroughly or completely.
- 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Mrs. Bullfrog”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
- And yet, bemauled as the poor fellow had been, he seemed to glance at me with an eye of pity, as if my case were more deplorable than his.
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