pahoinpidellä — meaning in English

English meaning

• abuse noun Cruel or violent treatment of a person, often repeated.
• batter verb To hit something or someone repeatedly and violently.
• maul noun A heavy hammer used for driving wedges when splitting logs, or as a weapon.
• mutilate verb To severely damage or disfigure something, often by cutting off a part.

Senses

pahoinpidellä is used for these senses in English:

• abuse (transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert [from around 1350 to 1470.]
• batter To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
• maul To handle someone or something in a rough way.
• maul (usually of an animal) To savage; to cause serious physical wounds.
• mess up (transitive, slang) To manhandle; beat up; rough up.
• mutilate To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.
• rough up to manhandle or beat up

abuse — full definition

1. noun Cruel or violent treatment of a person, often repeated.
2. noun The wrong or harmful use of something, such as power, drugs, or a position of trust.
3. verb To treat someone cruelly or violently.
4. verb To use something improperly or excessively, especially drugs or alcohol.

batter — full definition

1. verb To hit something or someone repeatedly and violently.
2. noun A liquid mixture of flour, egg, and milk used in baking or to coat food before frying.
3. noun In cricket or baseball, the player at bat.

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