[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

mangle \man"gle\, v. t. imp.  p. p. mangled; p. pr.  vb. n.
   mangling. a frequentative fr. oe. manken to main, as.
   mancian, in bemancian to mutilate, fr. l. mancus maimed;
   perh. akin to g. mangeln to be wanting.
   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.
      1913 webster

            mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. to mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or performing;
      as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.
      1913 webster

            to mangle a play or a novel.          --swift.
      1913 webster
see also:
mangled mangling 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

mangled
     adj 1: having edges that are jagged from injury syn: lacerate, lacerated,
             torn
     2: of compositions e.g. damaged; "a mutilated text" syn: mutilated
see also:
lacerate lacerated torn mutilated 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

60 moby thesaurus words for "mangled":
   aggravated, broken, burned, burst, busted, butchered, castrated,
   checked, chipped, cleft, cloven, cracked, crazed, cut, cut short,
   damaged, deteriorated, docked, embittered, exacerbated, garbled,
   harmed, hashed, hurt, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces,
   in shards, in shreds, injured, irritated, lacerate, lacerated,
   lopped, mutilated, quartered, ragged, rent, riven, ruptured,
   scalded, scorched, severed, shattered, shredded, slashed, slit,
   smashed, splintered, split, sprung, tattered, the worse for, torn,
   truncated, weakened, worse, worse off, worsened

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