manglings

Brutal crushing injuries

Manglings are instances of damaging, mutilating, or badly distorting something.

A body can suffer manglings from machinery or violence.

More commonly, the word describes ruinous treatment of language, music, or other material: His manglings of classical pieces made the audience wince.

The plural emphasizes multiple acts of mangling or their accumulated results.

textual

garbling

Corrupting transmitted information

distortionsMisshapen versions of truth
corruptionsDebasements of purity
misspellingsIncorrectly written words

typos · errors · scrambling · mutations · alterations · butchering · mistranscriptions · misquotations · jumbling · transpositions

physical

mutilations

Acts causing severe disfigurement

disfigurementsPermanent appearance-altering damage
maulingsBrutal physical attacks
lacerationsIrregular torn wounds

tearings · wrecking · shreddings · damages · destruction · injuries · wounds · ravaging · ruining · battering

linguistic

mispronunciations

Incorrect spoken renderings

botchingDoing something poorly
bunglingMishandling through incompetence
murderingUnlawfully taking a life

butchering · broken English · accents · stammerings · slurrings · tongue twisters · foreign words · stumbling · malapropisms · spoonerisms

musical

discordance

Conflicting elements together

off-keyWrong pitch, musically
cacophonyHarsh, clashing sounds
tone-deafCannot perceive pitch differences

covers · interpretations · renditions · performances

Opposites

physical handling

manglingspreservations

Acts of keeping safe

restorations · repairs · healings · protections · soft touches

textual/informational treatment

manglingspreservations

Acts of keeping safe

clarifications · clean copies

quality of execution

manglingsperfections

States of being faultless

refinements · enhancements · improvements

Family

mangling

Familiarity: Top 500,000
Profile: Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG