Meaning & use
mangled
Badly damaged, crushed, or distorted, often through violent force.
See it in a sentence
The car's front end was mangled after skidding into the roadside guardrail.
The translator mangled the poem so badly that its original meaning was lost.
A note on using this word
Mangled can describe physical damage or a figurative mangling of words, text, or ideas through careless handling.
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
intactunharmed
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