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MANGLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having edges that are jagged from injury
Synonyms:
lacerate; lacerated; mangled; torn
Classified under:
Similar:
injured (harmed)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb mangle
Context examples:
This accomplished, he pried gently and carefully, loosening the jaws a bit at a time, while Matt, a bit at a time, extricated White Fang's mangled neck.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The flowers which had been round her neck we found upon her mother's bosom, and her throat was bare, showing the two little wounds which we had noticed before, but looking horribly white and mangled.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
There was something horrible in the ferocious energy of Berks’s hitting, every blow fetching a grunt from him as he smashed it in, and after each I gazed at Jim, as I have gazed at a stranded vessel upon the Sussex beach when wave after wave has roared over it, fearing each time that I should find it miserably mangled.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then the calf of his leg was badly lacerated and looked as though it had been mangled by a bulldog.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Amazed and dizzy, the defenders, clutching at the cracking parapets for support, saw great stones, burning beams of wood, and mangled bodies hurtling past them through the air.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As he toppled backwards he had loosed the spring, and the huge beam of wood, swinging round with tremendous force, cast the corpse of his comrade so close to the English ship that its mangled and distorted limbs grazed their very stern.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
