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Definitions for Mangle
[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; ruin; mar badly: to mangle a text by careless typesetting.
[3] a machine for smoothing or pressing clothes, household linen, etc., by means of heated rollers.
[4] to smooth or press with a mangle.
[5] Metalworking . to squeeze (metal plates) between rollers.
[6] to mutilate, disfigure, or destroy by cutting, crushing, or tearing
[7] to ruin, spoil, or mar
[8] Also called: wringer a machine for pressing or drying wet textiles, clothes, etc, consisting of two heavy rollers between which the cloth is passed
[9] to press or dry in a mangle
Words related to Mangle
disfigure, wreck, lacerate, bruise, distort, impair, contort, hack, maim, maul, deface, rend, slay, slit, cut, injure, ruin, wound, damage, butcher
Words nearby Mangle
mangemange, manger, mangetout, mangey, mangia-cake, mangle, mango, mango madness, mangoky, mangold-wurzel, mangonel
Origin of Mangle
21765–75; < Dutch mangel ≪ Late Latin manganum. See mangonel
Other words from Mangle
man·gler , noun
Word origin for Mangle
C18: from Dutch mangel, ultimately from Late Latin manganum. See mangonel
Synonyms for Mangle
bruise, contort, disfigure, distort, hack, impair, lacerate, maim, maul, wreck, batter, break, butcher, carve, crush, cut, damage, deface, destroy, flay, hash, injure, mar, rend, ruin, separate, slash, slay, slice, slit, spoil, tear, wound