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mangle

1

[ mang-guhl ]

verb (used with object)

, man·gled, man·gling.
  1. to injure severely, disfigure, or mutilate by cutting, slashing, or crushing:

    The coat sleeve was mangled in the gears of the machine.

  2. to spoil or ruin; mar badly:

    The story was mangled by a clumsy translation.

    Synonyms: destroy, deface



mangle

2

[ mang-guhl ]

noun

  1. a machine for smoothing or pressing clothes, household linen, etc., by means of heated rollers.

verb (used with object)

, man·gled, man·gling.
  1. to smooth or press with a mangle.
  2. Metalworking. to squeeze (metal plates) between rollers.

mangle

1

/ ˈmæŋɡəl /

noun

  1. Also calledwringer a machine for pressing or drying wet textiles, clothes, etc, consisting of two heavy rollers between which the cloth is passed
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. to press or dry in a mangle
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

mangle

2

/ ˈmæŋɡəl /

verb

  1. to mutilate, disfigure, or destroy by cutting, crushing, or tearing
  2. to ruin, spoil, or mar
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈmangler, noun
  • ˈmangled, adjective
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Other Words From

  • mangler noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mangle1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Anglo-French mangler, perhaps dissimilated variant of Old French mangonner “to mangle”; akin to mangonel

Origin of mangle2

1765–75; < Dutch mangel Late Latin manganum. See mangonel
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mangle1

C18: from Dutch mangel, ultimately from Late Latin manganum. See mangonel

Origin of mangle2

C14: from Norman French mangler, probably from Old French mahaignier to maim
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Synonym Study

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Example Sentences

They also fine-tuned the speed and range of movement of the robotic arms—after all, no one wants to see a giant robotic arm gripping with a pointy fork flying at your face with a dangling, mangled piece of cake.

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Those skeletons, unacknowledged—specters if you will—will always be there to raise their mangled heads when we least desire or can afford.

When I was very young we went caroling and always had a huge tree topped with a gold tinsel star that would look more mangled every year.

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Somehow it seems fitting, given everything we’ve learned about the art market thus far, that an attempt to address this relatively simple royalty issue was so badly mangled.

Saying a word in a different tone can distort or utterly mangle a line.

Plus, a slip of the electric knife can really mangle your roast.

They had her give the weather update, and even let her mangle the word “amok.”

Now, here seemed simple panic: and like a pack of dogs which rush to mangle a mongrel, they were at him pell-mell.

They are then damped on a water mangle, and beamed on to the heavy iron bowl of the beetling machine.

In a laundry visited when the boss was out, we conferred with the engineer about one particularly bad mangle.

The reason for the low wages listed for mangle work seems to lie only in nationality.

From the folders the sheets are carried away to a mangle, where they are folded over again by young girls.

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