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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mangle \Man"gle\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mangled
adjective
1: having edges that are jagged from injury [syn: {lacerate}, {lacerated}, {torn}]
2: (of compositions e.g.) damaged; "a mutilated text" [syn: {mutilated}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "mangled": aggravated, broken, burned, burst, busted, butchered, castrated, checked, chipped, cleft, cloven, cracked, crazed, cut, cut short, damaged, deteriorated, docked, embittered, exacerbated, garbled, harmed, hashed, hurt, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces, in shards, in shreds, injured, irritated, lacerate, lacerated, lopped, mutilated, quartered, ragged, rent, riven, ruptured, scalded, scorched, severed, shattered, shredded, slashed, slit, smashed, splintered, split, sprung, tattered, the worse for, torn, truncated, weakened, worse, worse off, worsened
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