mangle
verb (used with object)
to injure severely, disfigure, or mutilate by cutting, slashing, or crushing.
Example Sentences
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Along the roads around Izyum burnt-out shells of petrol stations have become part of the landscape, heaps of mangled, charred metal.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
The eerie ambient music that drives “Obsession” — so artfully serrated and delicately mangled by Burwell — emerged from a counterintuitive creative nuance that AI could never capture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
John Schaeffer sent pictures of his Ram 1500, mangled by a head-on accident with a Tesla.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Such gaps are not abstract — they represent real human lives that are lost or mangled.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026
He remembered the mangled remains of the diary, and how the stone in the Horcrux ring had been cracked open when Dumbledore destroyed it.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
