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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Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025
When police arrived, both the 27-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man had already gotten out of the mangled wreck, police said.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2025
The mangled wreckage of a plane with 10 bodies inside was found on Friday near the western coast of Alaska and is believed to be the aircraft that vanished the day before, a spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska said.
—John Yoon, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2025
An arduous and slow recovery mission The mangled wreckage in the Potomac has made the recovery effort especially difficult for dive teams, who have struggled to access parts of the plane’s fuselage where bodies may be trapped.
—Karina Tsui, CNN, 4 Feb. 2025
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Helene killed more than 100 people and mangled infrastructure, washing out roads, power lines and water treatment facilities.
—Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025
When police arrived, both the 27-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man had already gotten out of the mangled wreck, police said.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2025
The mangled wreckage of a plane with 10 bodies inside was found on Friday near the western coast of Alaska and is believed to be the aircraft that vanished the day before, a spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska said.
—John Yoon, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2025
An arduous and slow recovery mission The mangled wreckage in the Potomac has made the recovery effort especially difficult for dive teams, who have struggled to access parts of the plane’s fuselage where bodies may be trapped.
—Karina Tsui, CNN, 4 Feb. 2025
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“Mangled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mangled. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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