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mangle

1

[ mang-guhl ]

verb (used with object)

mangled, mangling.
  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.

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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)

mangled, mangling.
  1. to smooth or press with a mangle.
  2. Metalworking. to squeeze (metal plates) between rollers.

mangle

1

/ ˈ³¾Ã¦Å‹É¡É™±ô /

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

mangle

2

/ ˈ³¾Ã¦Å‹É¡É™±ô /

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
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ³¾²¹²Ô²µ±ô±ð°ù, noun
  • ˈ³¾²¹²Ô²µ±ô±ð»å, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¾²¹²Ôg±ô±ð°ù noun
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˜yÐÄvlog 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 mangleâ€; akin to mangonel

Origin of mangle2

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

Origin of mangle1

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

Origin of mangle2

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

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Then he came across a picture of Sagaing's Ava Bridge – a local landmark – lying in mangled ruins in the Irrawaddy River.

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Fascists, however, work to cripple the slow thinking system by essentially lobotomizing their followers intellectually and mangling them emotionally.

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The mangled carcasses of buildings dot the churned-up landscape, some leaning at crazy angles.

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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.

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