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- Dictionarymangle/ˈmaŋɡl/
noun
- 1. a machine having two or more rollers turned by a handle, between which wet laundry is squeezed to remove excess moisture.
verb
- 1. press or squeeze with a mangle: "the hard household labour often involved pounding clothes in a dolly tub and mangling them with a hand wringer"
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MANGLE definition: 1. to destroy something by twisting it with force or tearing it into pieces so that its original…. Learn more.
When you mangle something, you completely destroy it, by ripping, cutting, crushing, or otherwise mauling it into pieces. You shouldn't leave your new puppy alone in a room with your favorite shoes because he might mangle them with his sharp puppy teeth.
The meaning of MANGLE is to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing. How to use mangle in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Mangle.
A mangle is an old-fashioned machine for removing water from clothes that have been washed. The clothes are squeezed between two wooden cylinders . Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary .
Mangle definition: to injure severely, disfigure, or mutilate by cutting, slashing, or crushing. See examples of MANGLE used in a sentence.
Definition of mangle verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. To mutilate or disfigure by battering, hacking, cutting, or tearing: fishing nets that mangle fish. 2. To ruin or spoil through ineptitude or ignorance: mangle a speech. [Middle English manglen, from Anglo-Norman mangler, frequentative of Old French mangoner, to cut to bits; possibly akin to mahaignier, to maim; see mayhem .] man′gler n.
Mangle definition: To mutilate or disfigure by battering, hacking, cutting, or tearing.
mangle. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English man‧gle1 /ˈmæŋɡəl/ verb [ transitive] 1 to damage or injure something badly by crushing or twisting it The trap closed round her leg, badly mangling her ankle. 2 to spoil something such as a speech or piece of music, by saying or playing it badly The orchestra had mangled Bach’s ...
n. a machine for smoothing or pressing clothes, household linen, etc., by means of heated rollers. v.t. to smooth or press with a mangle. Metallurgy to squeeze (metal plates) between rollers. Dutch mangel Late Latin manganum. See mangonel.
