MANGLES Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

mangles

verb

present tense third-person singular of mangle

as in fumbles

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 mangles Grief mangles cognition and memory in ways that can make even banal tasks feel surreal, if not impossible. — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 22 June 2026

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DeLand was driving inside the 20 yard line and Taihj Moore fumbles, recovered by Lake Mary.

— Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026
Buford scored 17 points off three Gainesville fumbles on punt plays.

— Jack Leo, AJC.com, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of fumbles

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Policymakers' ignorance of oil market mechanics becomes clear only when geopolitics enters the picture and blows it all to hell, either figuratively or literally.

— Michael Khouw, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
The exhaust port blows to the rear to allow for quick cleaning of leaves and grass clippings.

— BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of blows

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In clinical environments bound by federal regulations and ethics guidelines, an LLM that hallucinates an endpoint or botches eligibility criteria does not just cause a minor hiccup.

— Anshima Raj, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Then the candidate, unfamiliar with some far-away region of the world, botches it.

— Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of botches

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Joe Burrow bungles Bengals’ passing game My theory of the case with Caleb Williams is that there was untapped running value here.

— Michael Salfino, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Gentleman thief Sir Charles Lytton (David Niven) circles the prize while Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers) bungles the pursuit with sublime obliviousness.

— Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025

Definition of bungles

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Jains typically do not eat root vegetables because harvesting them destroys the whole plant and harms life-forms around it.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Sep. 2026
How IonQ cracked error correction Since making measurements of a qubit destroys its quantum state, researchers can only gather information about their syndromes to know if the qubit has accumulated an error or not.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026

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