mangled
part of speech
adjective (mangled); verb, past of «mangle» (mangle, mangles, mangled, mangling)
meaning for a pupil
1) Badly crushed, twisted or torn so that it is spoilt. tree →
2) (of words or music) Spoilt by being said or played very badly. tree →
3) (old) Pressed through a mangle, a machine with rollers that squeezed water out of washing. tree →
sense in the lessons
In stories and news, a mangled car or bike tells the reader there was a bad crash. In everyday talk you can mangle a song or a foreign word. History: in Victorian times washing was pushed through a mangle. Alice mangles poems: her «How doth the little crocodile» comes out wrong.
examples
- The bike was mangled after the crash. tree →
- The dog left a mangled slipper. tree →
- Alice mangled the poem, and the words came out all wrong. tree →
- He mangled the French phrase, and the waiter laughed. tree →
- Grandma remembers mangling the washing on Mondays. tree →
- The storm left mangled trees along the road. tree →
- Her mangled body was cast into the fount near Thebes, which still bears her name. tree →
note
Mangle the verb is unrelated to «mango». Present: mangle; -ing form: mangling.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «mangled» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.