Word Meanings - MANGLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

bemancian to mutilate, fr. L. mancus maimed; perh. akin to G. mangeln 1. To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate;

Additional info about word: MANGLE

bemancian to mutilate, fr. L. mancus maimed; perh. akin to G. mangeln 1. To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton. 2. To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or pertaining; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation. To mangle a play or a novel. Swift.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MANGLE)

• maim
• Disable
• cripple
• mar
• mutilate
• mangle
• disfigure
• lame

Related words: (words related to MANGLE)

• MANGLE
  bemancian to mutilate, fr. L. mancus maimed; perh. akin to G. mangeln 1. To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate;
• DISABLEMENT
  Deprivation of ability; incapacity. Bacon.
• CRIPPLENESS
  Lameness. Johnson.
• DISABLE
  Lacking ability; unable. "Our disable and unactive force." Daniel.
• DISFIGURER
  One who disfigures.
• CRIPPLER
  A wooden tool used in graining leather. Knight.
• CRIPPLE
  One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled. I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. Dryden. (more
• MANGLER
  One who mangles or tears in cutting; one who mutilates any work in doing it.
• DISFIGURE
  To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform. Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own. Milton. Syn. -- To deface; deform; mar; injure. (more info) dis-) + figurer to fashion, shape,
• CRIPPLED
  Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. "The crippled crone." Longfellow.
• DISFIGUREMENT
  1. Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity. Milton. 2. That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot. Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse. Hume.
• MUTILATE
  Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean. (more info) 1. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated. Sir T. Browne.
• MERCHANDISABLE
  Such as can be used or transferred as merchandise.
• MINGLE-MANGLE
  To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of. Udall.
• BECRIPPLE
  To make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame. Dr. H. More.
• BEMANGLE
  To mangle; to tear asunder. Beaumont.