mauls
Tears apart violently
Mauls is the plural of maul, a heavy hammer or mallet used for driving stakes, splitting wood, or other tasks requiring forceful blows.
As a verb, maul means to attack and injure by tearing or scratching, as a wild animal might: The bear mauled the hiker before rangers drove it off.
Figuratively, critics or opponents maul something when they savage it: The press mauled the senator's proposal.
In rugby, a maul is a loose scrum formed around a player carrying the ball.
Team sport with scrums
- scrumContested pack restart
- ruckRugby's ground-level contest
- forwardsToward what lies ahead
- packGroup or compress
contest · ball · tackle · scrummage · hooker · prop · lock · flanker
Uncivilized or brutal people
- manglesDisfigures or distorts severely
- laceratesTears tissue roughly
- tearsViolent pulls apart
- ripsTears with force
shreds · ravages · batters · pummels · brutalizes · assaults · injures · wounds
Massive long-handled mallet
- splittingDividing into parts
- logsCut wood sections
- wedgeTapered splitting tool
- firewoodCut logs for burning
woodcutter · handle · swing · head · timber · lumberjack · chopping · forestry
Compresses with force
- demolishesTears down completely
- destroysCauses complete ruin
- annihilatesDestroys utterly and completely
- trouncesDefeats overwhelmingly
thrashes · clobbers · routs · dominates · overwhelms · decimates · obliterates · humiliates
rugby
Team sport with scrums
pack · contest · ball · tackle · scrummage · hooker · prop · lock · flanker · pushover
savages
Uncivilized or brutal people
rips · shreds · ravages · batters · pummels · brutalizes · assaults · injures · wounds · mutilates
sledgehammer
Massive long-handled mallet
firewood · woodcutter · handle · swing · head · timber · lumberjack · chopping · forestry · kindling
crushes
Compresses with force
- demolishesTears down completely
- destroysCauses complete ruin
- annihilatesDestroys utterly and completely
trounces · thrashes · clobbers · routs · dominates · overwhelms · decimates · obliterates · humiliates · shellacs
bear
Large furry omnivore
victim · attack · claws · fangs · teeth · jaws · prey · wildlife · zoo · savage
- striking toolshammers, claw hammer, ball peen hammer, ball-peen hammer, framing hammer
- rugby drillspassing drills, defensive drills, team drills, scrummaging, rucks
- footballfootball, touchdown, field goal, quarterback, end zone
- hurtsaches, burns, cuts, wounds, injures
- Darth Maul
- splitting maulHeavy log-cleaving tool