mangle
verb (used with object)
to injure severely, disfigure, or mutilate by cutting, slashing, or crushing.
mangles
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pluralof mangle.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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If he mangles the facts or ignores them altogether, which he does often, Seales said there are other news sites and sources where viewers can fact-check him.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024
The radiation inflicts photochemical damage that mangles nucleic acids—inactivating pathogenic viruses and bacteria, although not necessarily killing them.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 22, 2022
The 10-episode series, which mangles facts and embellishes personalities, nonetheless captures the Showtime spirit and actually gets some of it right.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
Though DALL-E often fails to understand what someone has described and sometimes mangles the image it produces, OpenAI continues to improve the technology.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2022
Thimbles and ploughs, eau-de-cologne and mangles, American stoves, cotton dresses of astounding patterns to suit the taste of Dutch ladies, harmoniums and flat-irons,—all stood peaceably side by side together.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various
