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: severely injured or damaged by cutting, tearing, or crushing
a mangled foot
A special bed—a box lined with cottonwool—was made for the mangled pigeon while the Wilsons nursed it …—
Iain Macdonald
Iain Macdonald… mangled warplanes lie strewn across the desert floor, their wings and tails torn off, their fuselages punctured.—Richard Wolkomir
Richard Wolkomir2
: spoiled or made incoherent
a mangled message
mangled punctuation/syntax
This is a draft manuscript waiting for an editor to impose coherence and to smooth over mangled grammar, malapropisms and political oversimplifications.—Emily MacFarquhar
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The rescue team shared photos of the mangled vehicle and the driver walking up the steep ledge with assistance from a rescuer to return to the highway.
—Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Once investigators have been cleared to begin analyzing the scene, they will be faced with a chaotic expanse of mangled equipment, shards of manufacturing material and hunks of evidence that have been flung far from its origin.
—Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
About two hours after the crash, a twisted, mangled helicopter lay upside down across the freeway.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Hanney said officers found Michaud and Snyder in the back of the mangled Jeep, unconscious and not breathing.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 2 Oct. 2025
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Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Once investigators have been cleared to begin analyzing the scene, they will be faced with a chaotic expanse of mangled equipment, shards of manufacturing material and hunks of evidence that have been flung far from its origin.
—Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
About two hours after the crash, a twisted, mangled helicopter lay upside down across the freeway.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Hanney said officers found Michaud and Snyder in the back of the mangled Jeep, unconscious and not breathing.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Mangled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mangled. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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