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mangled

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mangle  \Man"gle\,  v.  t.  [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  pertaining; 
  as  to  mangle  a  piece  of  music  or  a  recitation. 
 
  To  mangle  a  play  or  a  novel.  --Swift. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  mangled 
  adj  1:  having  edges  that  are  jagged  from  injury  [syn:  {lacerate},  {lacerated}, 
  {torn}] 
  2:  (of  compositions  e.g.)  "a  mutilated  text"  [syn:  {mutilated}]




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