Mangle - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈmæŋɡl|
Brit.
|ˈmæŋɡ(ə)l|
noun
- clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
verb
- press with a mangle
- alter so as to make unrecognizable (syn: murder, mutilate)
- destroy or injure severely (syn: cut up, mutilate)
mangle the sheets
- injure badly by beating (syn: maul)- alter so as to make unrecognizable (syn: murder, mutilate)
- destroy or injure severely (syn: cut up, mutilate)
Extra examples
I could hardly recognize the body of the driver, as it had been badly mangled up in the accident.
The trap closed round her leg, badly mangling her ankle.
The orchestra had mangled Bach's music.
Some mangles in newspaper articles occur under the pressure of deadlines.
Word forms
verb
I/you/we/they: mangle
he/she/it: mangles
present participle: mangling
past tense: mangled
past participle: mangled
I/you/we/they: mangle
he/she/it: mangles
present participle: mangling
past tense: mangled
past participle: mangled
noun
singular: mangle
plural: mangles
singular: mangle
plural: mangles
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