Possible Clues:

• This might harm pussy if she is around
• Harm done by female, caging lion, perhaps?
• Reprove severely
• Burn, in a way
• It would harm this to cut off the head and leave Tom, perhaps
• Denounce unmercifully
• Go away with explosive to create harm
• Lash into
• Rip into
• Damage part of St Paul's Cathedral