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Definition of Mangled
1. Adjective. Having edges that are jagged from injury.
Definition of Mangled
1. Adjective. mutilated, twisted, or disfigured. ¹
2. Verb. (past of mangle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mangled
1. mangle [v] - See also: mangle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mangled
Literary usage of Mangled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... noble citizens of Zant or Zacynthus, whose mangled bodies he cast into the
Ionian sea, was imputed, by the public indignation, to his latest posterity. ..."
2. Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"either incapable of correcting proofs or calmly indifferent to errors : his pages
bristle with misprints and grammatical solecisms; he mangled quotations so ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"LXH. multitude of peasantry assembled for the purpose, while, on their appearance,
they are bayed by dogs, and mangled with cutlasses. The love of dancing, ..."
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