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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of mallet.

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Examples

  • But that entire town was completely bombarded and destroyed, malleted, as if hit by a giant mallet in many places.

    CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2006 2006

  • Only the gentle and airy Black River,'' with its lightly malleted drum taps and pedal-steel groans, used the band effectively.

    Boston.com Top Stories 2011

  • To be fair to the guy, had he sent two of the youngsters looking for Argyll on their own and they'd got malleted at the next junction he would be facing more criticism than he is now.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • As is their custom, Miller, Prystowsky, Jocie Adams and Mat Davidson switched instruments throughout, going through guitars, acoustic and electric basses, pump organ, fiddle drums, clarinets and bowed and malleted crotales.

    Projo.com Projo Local News 2010

  • Other songs abandoned the drums for malleted percussion, which moved the group away from driving jams to more minimal pastures.

    The Tripwire 2009

  • Other songs abandoned the drums for malleted percussion, which moved the group away from driving jams to more minimal pastures.

    brooklynvegan 2009

  • The staff to be put out on the street with a binliner each, having been body-searched for data-devices: all entire computers, disks, files, CDs, sticks, paper-filing-cabinets etc to be malleted or burned with fire.

    Libertarian Blog Place 2009

  • The former twittered and fluttered through the strings and winds, backgrounded by an unusual hard-malleted figure on the bass drum.

    The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines 2009

  • It recalled the collaborative work of Robert Fripp and Brian Eno but also added such unique touches as a malleted instrument - either a marimba or an African baliphone - and standup bass.

    GoTriad Archives 2008

  • His hunchback seemed flattened, malleted by Grandmother’s fists to loosen his phlegm.

    Their Dogs Came With Them Helena María Viramontes 2007

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