MEANING
1. To badly damage or disfigure something by crushing, tearing, or other violent force.
2. To distort or spoil words, an account, or information through poor handling.
3. A machine or implement using rollers to squeeze water from or press cloth.
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Words that belong together
- mangle a limb
- mangled wreckage
On the page
The press mangled the empty brace in a single stroke.
Mangled wreckage blocked the stairwell beneath the hatch.
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Word forms
- Base
- mangle
- Past tense
- mangled
- Past participle
- mangled
- Present participle
- mangling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- mangle
- Present continuous
- am/is/are mangling
- Present perfect
- have/has mangled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been mangling
- Past
- mangled
- Past continuous
- was/were mangling
- Past perfect
- had mangled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been mangling
- Future
- will mangle
- Future continuous
- will be mangling
- Future perfect
- will have mangled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been mangling
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: mangle; mangles; mangled; mangled; mangling Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: mangles.
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