as in mutilated
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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
Jeremy Diamond, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025
Some of the dead had been buried, but other bodies remained strewn on the ground, mangled and decomposing.
—Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Video shared by police showed the mangled truck and heaps of clothing and other belongings scattered in the street.
—Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2025
Footage showed the mangled wreckage on an embankment on the side of the highway.
—Anthony Solorzano, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2025
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Their family of 11 is living in a tent alongside heaps of concrete and mangled steel that now lie where their home once stood.
—Jeremy Diamond, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025
Some of the dead had been buried, but other bodies remained strewn on the ground, mangled and decomposing.
—Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Video shared by police showed the mangled truck and heaps of clothing and other belongings scattered in the street.
—Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2025
Footage showed the mangled wreckage on an embankment on the side of the highway.
—Anthony Solorzano, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2025
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Verb
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And then in Joker 2, some people complained that the movie was ruined by the images on the screen and the sounds that accompanied them.—
Lexy Perez,
The Hollywood Reporter,
6 Jan. 2025
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Believing their beloved team already ruined mock drafting for the next two months, New York Giants fans probably hope for a loss against a Philadelphia Eagles team expected to rest starters Sunday.—
Jeff Howe,
The Athletic,
4 Jan. 2025
Verb
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He’s murdered, essentially, and the Innies have run amok.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
23 Mar. 2025
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In the 1970s, dark-haired, slender, and possessing considerable charm, this lethal Romeo wooed, won, and then murdered four women.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
23 Mar. 2025
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“Mangled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mangled. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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