Mangle

[mang-guh l]

Spell Syllables

 

verb (used with object), mangled, mangling.

1.

to injure severely, disfigure, or mutilate by cutting, slashing, orcrushing:

The coat sleeve was mangled in the gears of the machine.

2.

to spoil; ruin; mar badly:

to mangle a text by careless typesetting.

 

During my reading of Barney Collier’s Book. I had an idea of what this word meant but not a full idea. Now that I read the definition I see that the word means to mess something up or to disfigure something.

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