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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“Mangled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mangled. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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