ax, split, chop, cut.
mauling, n.1. mishandling, mistreatment, manhandling, ill-treatment, misusage; punishment, injury, damage, harm.
2. beating, cudgeling, drubbing, clubbing, pounding, thumping, battering, punching; shoving, pushing, bulldozing, knocking around; fustigation, bastinado, licking, trouncing; bruising, rain of blows, trampling.
maunder, v. 1. gibber, blather, ramble on, chatter, babble, prattle, gabble; mumble, stammer, hem and haw; run off at the mouth, run on, rattle on, twaddle.
2. wander, meander, ramble, traipse; straggle, SI. schlepp, stray, mosey, shuffle, saunter; stumble or limp orhobble along, founder, flounder; drift, float, follow the wild goose; skip around, wander from pillar to post, go off in all directions; putter, loiter, dawdle, dillydally, loaf; flub, blunder, bungle, bobble.
mausoleum, n.tomb, sepulcher, shrine, tholos, crypt, house of death, charnel house; Taj Mahal, Pyramid of Cheops orKhufu.
mauve, adj.pale bluish purple, lilac, lavender, violet.
maverick, n.1. Southwestern U.S.
unbranded cow orsteer, unbranded calf, motherless calf.
2. dissenter, dissident, objector, protester, protestant; malcontent, agitator, rabble-rouser, instigator, inciter, troublemaker; rebel, recusant, revolutionary, radical, extremist; separatist, sectarian, schismatic, apostate, heretic.
3. nonconformist, individualist, bohemian, eccentric, Inf.character, Archaic, original, rara avis; explorer, pioneer, trailblazer, pathfinder, forerunner, leader, vanguard; trend-setter, style-setter.
maw, n.1. mouth, jaw, jaws, chops, chaps, throat, gullet; orifice, opening, gape, chasm, cavity, hole, cavern.
2. craw, crop, gizzard, ventriculus; stomach, Anat., Zool.
venter.
mawkish, adj.1. sickening, nauseating, nauseous, vomitory; repellent, sour, gone bad, putrid, foul, fet id, smelly; unsavory, tongue-puckering; unpleasant, flat, stale, tasteless; insipid, namby-pamby, vapid, jejune, SI.blah.
2. sentimental, SI.gooey, soppy, mushy, slushy, cry-babyish. See - maudlin (def.1).
mawkishness, n.unpleasantness, insipidity, flatness, staleness, sourness; sentimentality, SI.drip, romanticism; mush, SI.glop, slushiness, gushiness, soppiness, drivel, slather.
maxim, n.1. aphorism, proverb, apothegm, gnome, mot, adage, Archaic, word, Archaic, sentence; saw, pithy statement, sententious saying, saying; axiom, precept, prescript, dictum; epigram, witticism, Fr. jeu d'esprit, quip, Atticism; cliche, hackneyed phrase, platitude, truism, Inf.bromide, commonplace.
2. standard, code, principle, canon, rule, golden rule, motto, moral*, byword.
maximize, v. 1. increase, enlarge, expand, aggrandize, greaten, amplify, magnify; augment, add to, build up, develop; widen, broaden, distend, inflate, fill out; elongate, protract, draw out, lengthen, stretch.