Advertisement
Advertisement
mangle
1[ mang-guhl ]
verb (used with object)
- to injure severely, disfigure, or mutilate by cutting, slashing, or crushing:
The coat sleeve was mangled in the gears of the machine.
- to spoil or ruin; mar badly:
The story was mangled by a clumsy translation.
Synonyms: ,
mangle
2[ mang-guhl ]
noun
- a machine for smoothing or pressing clothes, household linen, etc., by means of heated rollers.
verb (used with object)
- to smooth or press with a mangle.
- Metalworking. to squeeze (metal plates) between rollers.
mangle
1/ ˈ³¾Ã¦Å‹É¡É™±ô /
verb
- to mutilate, disfigure, or destroy by cutting, crushing, or tearing
- to ruin, spoil, or mar
mangle
2/ ˈ³¾Ã¦Å‹É¡É™±ô /
noun
- Also calledwringer a machine for pressing or drying wet textiles, clothes, etc, consisting of two heavy rollers between which the cloth is passed
verb
- to press or dry in a mangle
Derived Forms
- ˈ³¾²¹²Ô²µ±ô±ð°ù, noun
- ˈ³¾²¹²Ô²µ±ô±ð»å, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³¾²¹²Ôg±ô±ð°ù noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of mangle1
Origin of mangle2
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The wreck left the vehicles mangled in the road with one resting slightly on top of a boulder with its rear and passenger side crumpled.
Then he came across a picture of Sagaing's Ava Bridge – a local landmark – lying in mangled ruins in the Irrawaddy River.
Fascists, however, work to cripple the slow thinking system by essentially lobotomizing their followers intellectually and mangling them emotionally.
The mangled carcasses of buildings dot the churned-up landscape, some leaning at crazy angles.
In 1812, a year of dramatic battles in North America, Europe and Russia, some Russians founded a Sonoma County outpost called Fort Ross, probably an Anglicized mangling of the word “Russ,†for Russia.
Advertisement
Related ˜yÐÄvlogs
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse