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Definition of Bemaul
1. v. t. To maul or beat severely; to bruise.
Definition of Bemaul
1. Verb. (transitive) To maul thoroughly or completely. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bemaul
1. to maul [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: maul
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bemaul
Literary usage of Bemaul
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (1853)
"to bemaul Yorick to some purpose :—and that the to an oration, which, as they
judged from the sample, presaged but a rough kind uf handling of him : so that ..."
2. The Complete Works and Life of Laurence Sterne by Laurence Sterne, Wilbur Lucius Cross, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1904)
"... in order to bemaul Yorick to some purpose—and that the desperate monosyllable
Z ds was the exordium ..."
3. An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey by Robert Louis Stevenson (1911)
"... and sounds his own potent tuck upon the cannons there also must the drummer
boy, hurrying with white face over fallen comrades, batter and bemaul this ..."
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