mangling

verb

present participle of mangle
as in fumbling
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 mangling The man in black is wracked and choking, mangling the words, eyes dripping. — George Caulkin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 Complex documents with tables, charts and mixed content need each content type scored separately, since a model can nail text while mangling a table. — Sriram Bhargav Madhav, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026 Blade grinders function more like blenders, frantically whirring in circles, mangling the beans, and tossing them all over the grinding chamber. — Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 May 2026 Where was Michael Hill, the commissioner’s office executive serving as Team USA’s general manager, while his manager was mangling the stakes of the situation? — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 12 Mar. 2026 Bruce, my sincere apology for 40 years of mangling your songs in the car. — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2025 When Jets safety Malachi Moore went to tackle Hill, the wideout’s leg got caught underneath him, mangling the appendage in the process. — Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mangling
  1. fumbling
  2. blowing
  3. dubbing
  4. butchering
  5. murdering
  6. ruining
Verb
  • The fight sequences have an engaging messiness, the characters often fumbling around rather than delivering expert moves.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Clinicians should be working to support us, not fumbling incompetently or making paternalistic determinations.
    — Meg LeDuc, STAT, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of fumbling
Verb
  • Winds blowing east to west along the equator push water in the Pacific Ocean west toward Asia, Jacox said.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Andersen sees energy storage, which would allow for continual energy supply even when the wind isn’t blowing, as the wind sector’s next big opportunity.
    — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of blowing
Verb
  • The new live features include a new co-hosting function in which two creators can appear on the same stream together, and a live auto-dubbing tool that automatically translates speech in real time.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The platform also carries premium-quality subtitles and dubbing in more than 12 Asian languages, among them English, Hindi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada and Marathi.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of dubbing
Verb
  • During that collection and delivery, one or two animals are donated for harvest, or butchering, to Native American communities.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The butchering thing was a major complaint because the Commandos were expected to live off the land after their first day's rations ran out.
    — David Szondy August 30, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of butchering
Verb
  • Caleb Flynn, the former American Idol contestant who was found guilty of murdering his wife, Ashley Flynn, has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The former American Idol contestant and church worship leader convicted of murdering his wife and staging the scene to look like a burglary was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Monday.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of murdering
Verb
  • As wet electrodes get thicker, the liquid binder migrates unevenly during drying, ruining the battery‘s structure.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Seaver also allegedly threatened to start a podcast dedicated to ruining Parton’s image unless he was paid.
    — Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of ruining

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“Mangling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mangling. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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