to mangle
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7.2
- verb
- /ˈmæŋɡəl/
:
arruinar
- Once they chopped all the big meat cuts, they had me climb inside the body cavity to clip the organs because I could get the eggs out without mangling them.
Sometimes the traumas just, it just mangles people essentially.
- Sometimes the traumas just, it just mangles people essentially.
- Mine is a little mangled and they are just two perfume samples.
- He doesn't he mangles a lot of them, but it's got a lot of feeling in it and you can just disappear into that feeling very easily.
Examples
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We're here because the fabric of integrity has been so abused and mangled that it is little more than a threadbare memory.
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Your flowers were being mangled.
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Did you even let them talk before you mangled them?
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Some words began to form, but the sound mangled and the line went dead.
Fiction book (1995) -
You want to keep Flash from getting mangled?
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Although some images were recovered from the mangled hard drive, the project was finished, and my enthusiasm waned.
Academic text (2003) -
Steam billows from the pickup, engine ticking, a heap of shattered glass and mangled steel.
Fiction book (1995) -
Cher Ami landed with a message canister dangling from his mangled leg, a message that saved more than 400 American lives.
Academic text (2003) -
Reports are pouring in from all over the globe that an impostor is shamelessly impersonating Santa Claus, mocking and mangling this joyous holiday.
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The heavy machinery mangled the car during the accident, leaving it unrecognizable.
Synonyms
73
7.4
Damage something by cutting or removing parts so it looks ruined
59
4.3
To change the shape of something so it is no longer normal
59
4.8
To change a thing's normal shape so it becomes bent or twisted
26
4.9
To bend out of shape when heated or wet
23
7.7
To do something so badly that people laugh or are annoyed
17
7.5
To twist a body or object into a strange shape
1
6.9
To make something have the wrong form
Treat someone or something very harshly and damage them
Make something stop working by hitting or dropping it
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A coastal tree with roots above the water whose seed begins to grow while still on the tree
How Damaging
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7.5
19
7.2
∞
1.0
∞
2.0
885
1.4
80
2.8
2
5.3
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mangle in the sense of ruining or changing something beyond recognition comes from the same idea of crushing or twisting until it is spoiled, like cloth in a machine. So to mangle a name or a story is to change it so much that it becomes hard to recognise.