Mangle

/ˈmæŋ.ɡəl/

Synonyms for "mangle" (102 found)

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Closest matches (21)

Noun(9 words)

alter apparatus bangs boneheads botch botches buggers butchering butchers

batter bufferbung upbutcher calender contort cripple crumple crush cut

Verb(2 words)

butchered choppered

Strong matches (30)

Verb(3 words)

cut upgarbles glitched

damage deface defoliate deform denude destroy disable disfigure dismember distortdraw and quarterflay hack hash hot-press hurt impair injure iron lacerate

Noun(7 words)

device disfigure encode garble garbling instrument machine

Related words (51)

maim manhandle mar maul mishandle misrepresent mutilate peelpick to piecespresspull apartrend rip roll roller rout ruin sander shred skin

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slaughter smooth smoother spoil striptake apartteartear aparttear to piecestear to tatterstorture wreck

Noun(15 words)

maim massacremisarticulated soundmunging murdering murders mutilate obfuscate rename ruin shemozzletext garbletool wringer wringers

Verb(4 words)

maul mung murder mutilate

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More general

21 entries

blemishclothes drierclothes dryerdamage deface device disfigure distort equipment falsify garble injure ironiron outmachine

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More specific

10 entries

disfigure distort garblehand mangleidentifier manglingindustrial manglemaim misquote mutilatenamespace mangling

Collocations

10 entries

data manglingelectric manglehand mangleindustrial manglelaundry manglemangled codemangling of identifiersname manglingsteam powered mangletext mangling

Inflections

3 entries

mangled mangles mangling

Derivations

3 entries

mangled mangler mangling

Sample sentences

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Christianity is not the answer, and it has even managed to mangle the question.

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How did Tom mangle his hand?

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mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail

Source: wiktionary

c. 1703-20, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage when they are disposed to mangle a play or a novel

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