Dictionary Definition
mangle n : clothes dryer for drying and ironing
laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
Verb
1 press with a mangle; "mangle the sheets"
2 injure badly by beating [syn: maul]
3 alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The
tourists murdered the French language" [syn: mutilate, murder]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes with: -æŋɡəl
Verb
Translations
to change, mutilate or disfigure
- Finnish: ruhjoa, runnoa, murjoa
- German: verstümmeln, zerfleischen; durch die Mangel drehen
- Portuguese: mutilar, desfigurar, mudar
to wring laundry
- Finnish: mankeloida
- German: mangeln, wringen
- Russian: разглаживать скалкой (razgláživat’ skálkoj)
Noun
Translations
a hand-operated device with rollers for wringing
laundry
Extensive Definition
Mangle can refer to:
- Mangle (machine), a mechanical laundry aid consisting of two rollers
- Mangled packet, in computing
- Mangrove, woody trees or shrubs
- Name mangling, in computing
- A verb meaning to wreck or obliterate
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
bung up, butcher, calender, contort, cripple, crush, cut, damage, deface, defoliate, deform, denude, destroy, disfigure, dismember, distort, draw and quarter,
flay, hack, hot-press, impair, injure, iron, lacerate, maim, mar, maul, mutilate, peel, pick to pieces, press, pull apart, roll, ruin, shred, skin, spoil, strip, take apart, tear apart,
tear to pieces, tear to tatters, wreck