Synonyms of the word

maul

• n. A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into it, or in combat.
• n. (rugby) A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more…
• v. To handle someone or something in a rough way.
• v. To savage; to cause serious physical wounds (usually used of an animal).
• v. (figuratively) To criticise harshly.

blemish

• n. A small flaw which spoils the appearance of something, a stain, a spot.
• n. A moral defect; a character flaw.
• v. To spoil the appearance of.
• v. To tarnish (reputation, character, etc.); to defame.

cleave

• v. (transitive) To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
• v. (transitive, mineralogy) To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one…
• v. (transitive) To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
• v. (intransitive) To split.
• v. (intransitive, mineralogy) Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.
• n. (technology) Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques,…
• v. (intransitive) To cling, adhere or stick fast to something; used with to or unto.

deface

• v. To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
• v. To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value.
• v. (heraldry, flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it.

disfigure

• v. Change the appearance of something/someone to the negative.

hammer

• n. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
• n. A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
• n. (anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
• n. (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
• n. (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
• n. (curling) The last rock in an end.
• n. (Ultimate Frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip…
• n. Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
• n. One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
• v. To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
• v. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
• v. (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
• v. (sports) To hit particularly hard.
• v. (cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast.
• v. (intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly.

mangle

• v. (transitive) To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To wring laundry.
• v. (transitive, computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier…
• n. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
• n. The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
• n. mangrove (tree).

rive

• v. (transitive, archaic except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to split; to cleave.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
• v. (intransitive) To break apart; to split.
• v. (transitive, rare) To burst open; explode; discharge.
• v. (woodworking) To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
• n. A place torn; a rent; a rift.

sledge

• n. A heavy, long handled maul or hammer used to drive stakes, wedges, etc.
• v. to hit with a sledgehammer.
• n. A low sled drawn by animals, typically on snow, ice or grass.
• n. (Britain) any type of sled or sleigh.
• n. A card game resembling all fours and seven-up; old sledge.
• v. To drag or draw a sledge.
• v. To ride, travel with or transport in a sledge.
• v. (chiefly cricket, Australia) To verbally insult or abuse an opponent in order to distract them (considered…

sledgehammer

• n. A hammer that consists of a large, heavy, broad and flat block of metal (the head) attached to a handle…
• v. To strike with a sledgehammer.

split

• adj. Divided.
• adj. (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
• adj. (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
• adj. (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price…
• adj. (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than the usual eighths.
• adj. (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred…
• n. A crack or longitudinal fissure.
• n. A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
• n. A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
• n. (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
• n. (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase “to do the splits”) The acrobatic feat of spreading…
• n. (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
• n. (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between…
• n. A split shot or split stroke.
• n. A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
• n. A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliter or 1/4 quarter of a standard …
• n. A bottle of wine containing 0.375 liters, 1/2 the volume of a standard .75 liter bottle; a demi.
• n. (athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate point(s) in a race.
• n. (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
• n. (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt…
• n. (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists.
• v. (transitive, ergative) Of something solid, to divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
• v. (intransitive) Of something solid particularly wood, to break along the grain fully or partly along a…
• v. (transitive) To share; to divide.
• v. (slang) To leave.
• v. to separate or break up.
• v. To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
• v. To burst out laughing.
• v. (slang, dated) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
• v. (sports) In athletics (esp. baseball), when both teams involved in a doubleheader each win one game and…