Cut and Mangle

Cut

Cut verb - To penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife).
Usage example: I cut my hand on a piece of broken glass

Mangle is a synonym for cut in slice topic. In some cases you can use "Mangle" instead a verb "Cut", when it comes to topics like haggle.

Nearby Words: cutting, cutter, cutout

Mangle

Mangle verb - To make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way.

Cut is a synonym for mangle in crush topic. Sometimes you can use "Cut" instead a verb "Mangle", if it concerns topics such as activity, action, slice, chop.

Nearby Words: mangled, mangling

Common collocations

tongue cut tongue mangle tongue
part cut part mangle part
body cut body mangle body
line cut line mangle line
Other words: hand, face, film, times, lines, enemies.

Both words in one sentence

  • Subsystem Damage The goal is to mangle a body part so bad it can't be reanimated, and not separate the parts for individual reanimation (It's frightening when you cut off a zombie's arm and then you continue the fight a bit, only to be attacked from behind by the arm you cut off).
  • In Discworld, Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler manages to mangle his own catch phrase in Night Watch after Vimes travels 33 years into the past and inadvertently teaches it to him.
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