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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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Aerial videos of the April 10 response show divers jumping into the murky water from NYPD boats and wading toward the mangled aircraft.
—Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Video of the Russian strike and its aftermath showed mangled and bloodied bodies lying motionless, burning cars and debris covering the road, as screams and sirens wailed in the background.
—Justin Porter, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Associated Press reporters saw the mangled, bloodied car after the attack as relatives wept over the bodies.
—Samy Magdy, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
Footage circulating on social media and verified by NBC News showed the mangled remains of a fuel station outside a 10Box store in Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2025
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Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Video of the Russian strike and its aftermath showed mangled and bloodied bodies lying motionless, burning cars and debris covering the road, as screams and sirens wailed in the background.
—Justin Porter, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Associated Press reporters saw the mangled, bloodied car after the attack as relatives wept over the bodies.
—Samy Magdy, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
Footage circulating on social media and verified by NBC News showed the mangled remains of a fuel station outside a 10Box store in Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Mangled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mangled. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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