Mangle
verb
To ruin something by distorting or spoiling its form or shape, often by crushing it.
The car was mangled in the accident.
Often appears as...
- mangle beyond recognition
- mangle the truth
verb
To misrepresent or distort, especially to damage someone's reputation or the truth.
He mangled the facts to support his argument.
Often appears as...
- mangle the truth
- mangle an explanation
noun
A machine used to press or smooth laundry.
She puts the sheets through the mangle before folding them.
Often appears as...
- through the mangle
- use a mangle
verb
To ruin something by distorting or spoiling its form or shape, often by crushing it.
The car was mangled in the accident.
Often appears as...
- mangle beyond recognition
- mangle the truth
verb
To misrepresent or distort, especially to damage someone's reputation or the truth.
He mangled the facts to support his argument.
Often appears as...
- mangle the truth
- mangle an explanation
noun
A machine used to press or smooth laundry.
She puts the sheets through the mangle before folding them.
Often appears as...
- through the mangle
- use a mangle
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical damage
Focuses on physical alteration or destruction, often in a violent way.
My notebook got mangled when it fell into the machine.
Pro Tip 2/3Not gentle
Implies a lack of care or gentleness, leading to damage or distortion.
The package was mangled by the careless courier.
Pro Tip 3/3Accident connotation
Often used when describing accidents or events causing severe damage.
His hand was mangled in the machinery at work.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical damage
Focuses on physical alteration or destruction, often in a violent way.
My notebook got mangled when it fell into the machine.
Pro Tip 2/3Not gentle
Implies a lack of care or gentleness, leading to damage or distortion.
The package was mangled by the careless courier.
Pro Tip 3/3Accident connotation
Often used when describing accidents or events causing severe damage.
His hand was mangled in the machinery at work.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical damage
Focuses on physical alteration or destruction, often in a violent way.
My notebook got mangled when it fell into the machine.
Pro Tip 2/3Not gentle
Implies a lack of care or gentleness, leading to damage or distortion.
The package was mangled by the careless courier.
Pro Tip 3/3Accident connotation
Often used when describing accidents or events causing severe damage.
His hand was mangled in the machinery at work.
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Why the shape of your...
So what're we going to do to make it fit? Well, we have all kinds of options. Well, we could squeeze and stretch and mangle everything onto the screen, to make it all fill up, and everyone would look ridiculously thin and compressed. The good news is the sound would be just fine,
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How one tweet can ruin...
For the past three years, I've been going around the world meeting people like Justine Sacco -- and believe me, there's a lot of people like Justine Sacco. There's more every day. And we want to think they're fine, but they're not fine. The people I met were mangled.
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Nationalism vs....
Is that -- is that -- actually, the text is so big I can't read the full question. But is that a necessity? Is it going to take war to get there? Sorry Phil -- I mangled your question, but I blame the text right here. One option that some people talk about
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The polyphonic me PIPE...
thank you, beautiful assistant -- this system has no sounds in it itself until I start putting sounds in it, so there's no prerecorded samples of any kind. So once this thing really gets going, and it really starts to mangle the audio I'm putting into it,
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Boyd Varty: What I...
My leg from the knee down is mangled beyond description. The bone is cracked. The meat is torn up. I make an instant decision that I'll never look at that again. As I come out of the water, Solly arrives at a deep section, a channel between us.
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Resurrecting Notre-Dame...
cathedrals just just walking in your eyes are encouraged by the architects to look upwards and then it ends at this devastating horrible kind of mangled mess of of fire debris it's very emotional the first time you go in there and see this
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Dr. Anthony Fauci: Is...
Well, it's, I think, an old phenomenon. There's a famous saying that I'm going to mangle about by the time the truth gets out of the barn, the lie is halfway around the world. And that's definitely the world we're living in.
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Latif Nasser: The...
he couldn't see out of it. But worst of all were his mangled cauliflower ears. He said they felt like two baseballs on the sides of his head. Pain just kept accumulating in his life.
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The opportunity of...
stalled, maimed, wounded, mangled, lame, mutilated, run-down, worn-out, weakened, impotent, castrated, paralyzed, handicapped, senile, decrepit, laid-up, done-up, done-for, done-in
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The agony of opioid...
I became nauseated, lost my appetite, I ached everywhere, had increased pain in my rather mangled foot; I developed trouble sleeping due to a general feeling of restlessness.
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Why the shape of your...
So what're we going to do to make it fit? Well, we have all kinds of options. Well, we could squeeze and stretch and mangle everything onto the screen, to make it all fill up, and everyone would look ridiculously thin and compressed. The good news is the sound would be just fine,
Video examples
How one tweet can ruin...
For the past three years, I've been going around the world meeting people like Justine Sacco -- and believe me, there's a lot of people like Justine Sacco. There's more every day. And we want to think they're fine, but they're not fine. The people I met were mangled.
Video examples
Nationalism vs....
Is that -- is that -- actually, the text is so big I can't read the full question. But is that a necessity? Is it going to take war to get there? Sorry Phil -- I mangled your question, but I blame the text right here. One option that some people talk about
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The polyphonic me PIPE...
thank you, beautiful assistant -- this system has no sounds in it itself until I start putting sounds in it, so there's no prerecorded samples of any kind. So once this thing really gets going, and it really starts to mangle the audio I'm putting into it,
Video examples
Boyd Varty: What I...
My leg from the knee down is mangled beyond description. The bone is cracked. The meat is torn up. I make an instant decision that I'll never look at that again. As I come out of the water, Solly arrives at a deep section, a channel between us.
Video examples
Resurrecting Notre-Dame...
cathedrals just just walking in your eyes are encouraged by the architects to look upwards and then it ends at this devastating horrible kind of mangled mess of of fire debris it's very emotional the first time you go in there and see this
Video examples
Dr. Anthony Fauci: Is...
Well, it's, I think, an old phenomenon. There's a famous saying that I'm going to mangle about by the time the truth gets out of the barn, the lie is halfway around the world. And that's definitely the world we're living in.
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Latif Nasser: The...
he couldn't see out of it. But worst of all were his mangled cauliflower ears. He said they felt like two baseballs on the sides of his head. Pain just kept accumulating in his life.
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The opportunity of...
stalled, maimed, wounded, mangled, lame, mutilated, run-down, worn-out, weakened, impotent, castrated, paralyzed, handicapped, senile, decrepit, laid-up, done-up, done-for, done-in
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The agony of opioid...
I became nauseated, lost my appetite, I ached everywhere, had increased pain in my rather mangled foot; I developed trouble sleeping due to a general feeling of restlessness.
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Quote examples
C418
German Musician
There's this weird game called 'Blueberry Garden.' For that game an artist recorded some piano music, but evidently he only had a really terrible microphone on top of the piano, and I really liked it and wanted to experiment with that. So, I made piano recording and really mangled it, and kept experimenting with the technique.
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Kate Forsyth
Australian Author
As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass.
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Nick Clegg
British Politician
I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.
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Jim Crace
English Writer
When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative.
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Mollie Hemingway
American Author
President George W. Bush was kind of a goofy tongue-tied dude. Mostly he just mangled the English language. Barack Obama, by contrast, was a smooth talker. The problem is that frequently what he said was just wrong or tendentious.
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Rob Manuel
Businessman
Videogames based on golf have often been viewed as, to mangle a phrase, a good walk through a virtual world spoiled. Connecting with your virtual golfers has often been as hard for gamers as understanding the sport itself.
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Cristin Milioti
American Actress
I mangle phrases constantly. The other day I was chatting with my boyfriend and I said to him, 'He really sold him under the bus.' And he said, 'I think you meant 'threw him under the bus,' or 'sold him up the river.
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George Vecsey
American Author
It's a Stanley Cup thing. The boys mangle one another for a series, performing all kinds of nasty tricks, then they make nice, shaking soggy hands as the teams shuffle in opposite directions.
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Stacy Schiff
American Author
By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.
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Jason Moran
American Musician
I'm a bit of a traditionalist, but I kind of mangle things as I perform in a contemporary way.
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C418
German Musician
There's this weird game called 'Blueberry Garden.' For that game an artist recorded some piano music, but evidently he only had a really terrible microphone on top of the piano, and I really liked it and wanted to experiment with that. So, I made piano recording and really mangled it, and kept experimenting with the technique.
Quote examples
Kate Forsyth
Australian Author
As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass.
Quote examples
Nick Clegg
British Politician
I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.
Quote examples
Jim Crace
English Writer
When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative.
Quote examples
Mollie Hemingway
American Author
President George W. Bush was kind of a goofy tongue-tied dude. Mostly he just mangled the English language. Barack Obama, by contrast, was a smooth talker. The problem is that frequently what he said was just wrong or tendentious.
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Rob Manuel
Businessman
Videogames based on golf have often been viewed as, to mangle a phrase, a good walk through a virtual world spoiled. Connecting with your virtual golfers has often been as hard for gamers as understanding the sport itself.
Quote examples
Cristin Milioti
American Actress
I mangle phrases constantly. The other day I was chatting with my boyfriend and I said to him, 'He really sold him under the bus.' And he said, 'I think you meant 'threw him under the bus,' or 'sold him up the river.
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George Vecsey
American Author
It's a Stanley Cup thing. The boys mangle one another for a series, performing all kinds of nasty tricks, then they make nice, shaking soggy hands as the teams shuffle in opposite directions.
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Stacy Schiff
American Author
By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.
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Jason Moran
American Musician
I'm a bit of a traditionalist, but I kind of mangle things as I perform in a contemporary way.
Example 1 of 10
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