. _:vb7011271 "(transitive) To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc."@en . _:vb7011271 . _:vb7011273 "when they are disposed to mangle a play or a novel"@en . "1" . _:vb7011272 "mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail"@en . _:vb7011272 . _:vb7011273 . _:vb7011273 "c. 1703-20, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage"@en . _:vb7011272 "1667, John Milton, \u201CBook VI\u201D, in Paradise Lost.\u00A0[\u2026], London: [\u2026] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker\u00A0[\u2026]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter\u00A0[\u2026]; [a]nd Matthias Walker,\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books:\u00A0[\u2026], London: Basil Montagu Pickering\u00A0[\u2026], 1873, \u2192OCLC:"@en .