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adjective

Definition of manglednext
as in mutilated

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verb

past tense of mangle
as in fumbled
to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way you've mangled this so badly that we'll have to do it over

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Recent Examples of mangled
Adjective
The nose of the aircraft appeared torn off, leaving mangled parts of the front of the plane dangling toward the ground. — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 24 Mar. 2026 After midnight, one evening in late January, a doctor ushered a young man with a mangled hand into her car and sped to a private clinic on the outskirts of Tehran. — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2026
Verb
The 49ers Hall of Fame safety had his pinkie mangled on a tackle during a game in 1985, and played with a splint before having the digit amputated after the season. — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2026 After the game, his face was mangled, with a cut across the bridge of his nose and what looked like a rug burn on his chin. — Arpon Basu, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for mangled
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mangled
  1. mutilated
  2. fumbled
  3. damaged
  4. blew
  5. wrecked
  6. butchered
  7. ruined
  8. dubbed
Adjective
  • According to the Times coverage of the incident and subsequent lawsuit, the scenes shown in the classroom included autopsies, decaying cadavers and live animals being butchered, mutilated and tortured.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
  • But the most difficult parts also offer ways forward — news that arrives via a skull, a mutilated body, evidence of closure in many respects of the word.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
Definition of mutilated
Verb
  • Lake Brantley appeared to have picked up the first down on third down but the ball was fumbled backwards to put the Patriots in fourth and long.
    — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2026
  • After Carter Jensen flew out to deep center field, Caglianone tagged from second base and kept running toward home as outfielder Andy Pages fumbled the baseball out of his glove.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of fumbled
Adjective
  • Many residents continued to sleep outside rather than risk returning to damaged homes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
  • President Abelardo de la Espriella, who had been in office for only three days when the earthquake struck, announced a reconstruction fund for damaged homes, hospitals, schools and infrastructure.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of damaged
Verb
  • For more than a decade after, human-AI teams ruled the sport until AI alone blew past those hybrids by 2017.
    — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • An American Airlines flight blew two tires upon landing at Chicago O'Hare International Airport on Monday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
    — Benjamin Stein, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of blew
Adjective
  • Police and firefighters responding to the area discovered the wrecked vehicle along the hillside.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Hundreds of clay jars known as amphorae were discovered inside the wrecked ship, alongside lead anchor stocks and other artifacts, police said.
    — Isabella Colletta, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of wrecked
Verb
  • At the site, excavators found stone tools alongside bones of ancient elephants — and the recent paper, written by archaeologists and paleoanthropologists, suggests the remains were likely deliberately butchered by early human ancestors.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The meats — some butchered on-site by Soto — sear over mesquite charcoal, with smoke wafting through the large patio and over the restaurant’s bright pink walls.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of butchered
Adjective
  • Sitting on the rim of his consciousness was always cataclysm, the muted whisper of a ruined world.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
Definition of ruined
Verb
  • Though that region was dubbed the whisky capital of the world in the Victorian Era – with more than 30 distilleries in its midsts – today Glen Scotia is one of just three that remain.
    — Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Some have dubbed the cover itself as racist, while others are saying Blanco’s non-Latin background as the problem.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of dubbed

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