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# mangled

adjective (mangled); verb, past of «mangle» (mangle, mangles, mangled, mangling)

«mangled» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Badly crushed, twisted or torn so that it is spoilt. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/mangled/#m1)
2. (of words or music) Spoilt by being said or played very badly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/mangled/#m2)
3. (old) Pressed through a mangle, a machine with rollers that squeezed water out of washing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/mangled/#m3)

### In the lessons

In stories and news, a mangled car or bike tells the reader there was a bad crash. In everyday talk you can mangle a song or a foreign word. History: in Victorian times washing was pushed through a mangle. Alice mangles poems: her «How doth the little crocodile» comes out wrong.

### Examples

- The bike was mangled after the crash. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/mangled/#x1)
- The dog left a mangled slipper. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/mangled/#x2)
- Alice mangled the poem, and the words came out all wrong. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/mangled/#x3)
- He mangled the French phrase, and the waiter laughed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/mangled/#x4)
- Grandma remembers mangling the washing on Mondays. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/mangled/#x5)
- The storm left mangled trees along the road. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/mangled/#x6)
- Her mangled body was cast into the fount near Thebes, which still bears her name. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/mangled/#x7)

### Note

Mangle the verb is unrelated to «mango». Present: mangle; -ing form: mangling.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «mangled»](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/mangled/): every meaning and example of this page parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mangled» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/mangled.html) on Mova free.