Read full poem →His who had given me life--O father! O God! was it well?--
Mangled, and flatten'd, and crush'd, and dinted into the ground:
There yet lies the rock that fell with him when he fell.
Dictionary Entry
To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.
Origin
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Common Phrases
bodies mangledbody mangled. mangledremains mangledcorpse mangledlimbs mangledmangled badly
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Poetry examples for “mangled”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →theatre, he not only permitted the best plays to be
mangled by the most despicable performers, but by
the introduction of tumblers and buffoons, and other
Read full poem →our old players, who kept most of their plays many years in manuscript as
mere play-house properties, to be chaneed and mangled by every new
actor's humour and fancy. As this was the case of most of our old plays,
Read full poem →On his forehead he bore the brand of shame,
And the rags, that hid his mangled frame,
Were the livery of disgrace.
Read full poem →Came and got flower-pots - these are all destroyed
And sky-bound mores in mangled garbs are left
Like mighty giants of their limbs bereft
Read full poem →No Persian carpets spread th'imperial way,
But scatter'd limbs of mangled poets lay:
From dusty shops neglected authors come,
Read full poem →The hardy veteran, after struck the sight,
Scarr’d, mangled, maim’d in every part;
Lopp’d of his limbs in many a gallant fight,
Read full poem →He took sinewy lumps from the shins of old frumps,
And mangled the errand-boys—when he could get 'em.
He shammed furious rabies, and bit all the babies,
Read full poem →Which long a Terror to each Bark had stood
Shall dash thy mangled limbs with furious shock
And stain its craggy sides with human blood.