if you laid there with peanut butter slopped on your face... I'm sure one might try and maul you to death.
the bear mauled the campers
The plastic bait was mauled by the mother bear.
The poor, helpless girl was mauled by the big, brown bear.
The word mauled is a verb. It is the past tense of the verb maul.
The man who climbed over the fence at the zoo's Lion enclosure was fatally mauled. Also: The enemy came on in such numbers and with such ferocity that our unit was badly mauled.
1935
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This meant very drunk. You've been mauled by the drink.
Bill Clinton
injured by beating
mauled,wolfed down
8:17
To have been injured severely by beating