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Antonyms for mangled


Grammar : Verb
Spell : mang-guh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmæŋ gəl



Definition of mangled

Origin :
  • clothes-pressing machine, 1774, from Dutch mangel, apparently short for mangelstok, from stem of mangelen to mangle, from Middle Dutch mange, ultimately from root of mangonel.
  • verb mutilate, deform
Example sentences :
  • Were they guilty whom you see down there gibbeted, mangled, and torn to pieces?
  • Extract from : « The Black Tulip » by Alexandre Dumas (Pere)
  • It is heart-sickening to witness their bloody, mangled forms.
  • Extract from : « Three Years in the Federal Cavalry » by Willard Glazier
  • They washed the bloody and mangled face, and found that it was indeed the prince.
  • Extract from : « Henry IV, Makers of History » by John S. C. Abbott
  • The dog soon became a mangled and bloody mass of flesh and bones.
  • Extract from : « Winning His Way » by Charles Carleton Coffin
  • The crown flamed toward the battery, scorched and mangled it.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • The ranch was on fire, and he was mangled so we hardly knowed him.
  • Extract from : « Two Boys in Wyoming » by Edward S. Ellis
  • Tucker and Traps, bleeding and mangled, were falling back and trying to escape.
  • Extract from : « Left on the Labrador » by Dillon Wallace
  • The mangled carcass plunged into the water, dislodged by their efforts.
  • Extract from : « Storm Over Warlock » by Andre Norton
  • A mangled likeness of his father, he had all his faults with not one of his merits.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry » by Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon
  • I went, anyhow, and they found my mangled body in the gutter in Yonkers.
  • Extract from : « Working With the Working Woman » by Cornelia Stratton Parker

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