MANGLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mangled mean? 

• MANGLED (adjective)
  The adjective MANGLED has 1 sense:

1. having edges that are jagged from injury

  Familiarity information: MANGLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANGLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having edges that are jagged from injury

Synonyms:

lacerate; lacerated; mangled; torn

Similar:

injured (harmed)

 Context examples 

Hans, still grasping the gun, felt sure that the Indian attributed to him the mangled corpses.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A torn, ragged, mangled wound, or an accidental cut of esophagus.

(Laceration Of Esophagus, NCI Thesaurus)

The remains of the half-finished creature, whom I had destroyed, lay scattered on the floor, and I almost felt as if I had mangled the living flesh of a human being.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

His grasp relaxed, his feet slipped, and in an instant he was a crushed and mangled corpse upon the sharp ridges beneath him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My cursed imagination saw her beaten and mangled against the rocks, and it was too terrible.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

With much labour we separated them and carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Yep, has fits,” the man said, hiding his mangled hand from the baggageman, who had been attracted by the sounds of struggle.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Their method was to fall forward with their full weight upon each in turn, leaving him crushed and mangled, to bound on after the others.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The White Mouse claimed him; so did The Northern Review and Mackintosh's Magazine, until silenced by The Globe, which pointed triumphantly to its files where the mangled "Sea Lyrics" lay buried.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)