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Mangled

Mangle \Man"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mangled; p. pr. & vb. n. Mangling.] [A frequentative fr. OE. manken to main, AS. mancian, in bemancian to mutilate, fr. L. mancus maimed; perh. akin to G. mangeln to be wanting.]

  1. To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate.

    Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.
    --Milton.

  2. To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or performing; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.

    To mangle a play or a novel.
    --Swift.

Wiktionary
mangled
  1. mutilated, twisted, or disfigured. v

  2. (en-past of: mangle)

WordNet
mangled
  1. adj. having edges that are jagged from injury [syn: lacerate, lacerated, torn]

  2. (of compositions e.g.) damaged; "a mutilated text" [syn: mutilated]

Usage examples of "mangled".

They dashed along at a prodigious rate for a full hour, dreading every minute to come across the mangled corpse of Robert.

Reaching out of the tattered wreckage was a muscular, mangled arm made of dull flame and twisted shadow.

He picked up a mangled piece of the device and looked at it, as if seeing it for the first time.

The wretch screamed through a ruin of splintered teeth, blowing bloody froth from his mangled lips.

Only empty darkness met his eyes, into which the serpent had dragged a mangled, tattered object that only faintly resembled a human body.

The people gave back as the body came hurtling down, to smash on the marble pave, spattering blood and brains, and lie crushed in its splintered armor, like a mangled beetle.

From the jungle-edge to the river-bank, among the rotting pillars and along the broken piers they lay, torn and mangled and half-devoured, chewed travesties of men.

The bodies he saw littering the moon-splashed grass were of men, not beasts: hawk-faced, dark-skinned men, naked, transfixed by arrows or mangled by sword-strokes.

With appalling suddenness the charge had turned into a shambles where armored figures died amid screaming mangled horses.

Conan, slinging the precious jars across his shoulders, wincing at the contact with his mangled flesh.

The brutal manner in which Fallow had been mangled suggested the power of a giant - not the limited strength of a midget or a dwarf.

Grotesquely twisted, mangled to a hideous degree, the chemist had met the same fate that Meldon Fallow had encountered.

These were telling the populace that another mangled corpse had been discovered.

According to the newspaper, boys, playing in a vacant lot in the Bronx, had discovered a mangled body.

They had all been in some terrible kind of conflict, and were torn and mangled in fiendish and altogether inexplicable ways.