MANGLES Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

mangles

verb

present tense third-person singular of mangle

as in fumbles

to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way you've mangled this so badly that we'll have to do it over

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Recent Examples of mangles Grief mangles cognition and memory in ways that can make even banal tasks feel surreal, if not impossible. — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 22 June 2026

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Lake Mary’s Remy Jarman fumbles the ball on his run and Oviedo recovers.

— Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026
Buford scored 17 points off three Gainesville fumbles on punt plays.

— Jack Leo, AJC.com, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of fumbles

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The Las Vegas spectacle, which opened to the public in August 2025, already blows audiences around with tornado-force wind, shakes them with haptic seats, sends giant winged monkeys flying overhead and drops hundreds of foam apples from the ceiling.

— Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026
By the time Frey and Felder nearly came to blows backstage in the summer of 1980, however, those threads were too frayed to hold.

— Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of blows

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Then the candidate, unfamiliar with some far-away region of the world, botches it.

— Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026
But there’s nothing shocking or subversive about this movie, which plays like proficient, forgettable straight-to-streaming fare for the first ninety minutes and then botches its big, bloody finale.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 27 May 2026

Definition of botches

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T cells, a type of immune cell that detects and destroys infected or abnormal cells, normally perform this inspection.

— William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
The white dwarf emits radiation and produces a giant gas bubble—the lion’s face—that destroys dust in its path.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026

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