Mangle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To mutilate or disfigure by battering, hacking, cutting, or tearing. See Synonyms at batter1.
  • v. To ruin or spoil through ineptitude or ignorance: mangle a speech.
  • n. A machine for pressing fabrics by means of heated rollers.
  • n. Chiefly British A clothes wringer.
  • v. To press with a mangle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.
  • v. To wring laundry.
  • v. To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
  • n. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
  • n. The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate.
  • v. To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or performing.
  • n. A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure, often with heated rollers.
  • v. To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cut and slash or tear at random; wound jaggedly or by numerous cuts; hack; lacerate; disfigure by cutting, hacking, tearing, or crushing: applied chiefly to the cutting of flesh.
  • Figuratively, to destroy the symmetry or completeness of; mutilate; mar through ignorance, bungling, or malice.
  • Synonyms Maim, etc. See mutilate.
  • n. A machine for smoothing fabrics or household articles of linen or cotton, as sheets, table-cloths, napkins, and towels.
  • To smooth with a mangle; calender.
  • n. See plate-straightening rolls.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. injure badly by beating
  • v. press with a mangle
  • n. clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
  • v. destroy or injure severely
  • v. alter so as to make unrecognizable
  • Verb Form
    mangled    mangles    mangling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    disfigure    blemish    deface    press    iron    iron out    clothes dryer    clothes drier    damage    garble   
    Form
    mangled    mangling   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lacerate    mutilate    murder    mouth    gargle    bungle   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Angle    Wrangell    angle    bangle    dangle    disentangle    entangle    fangle    jangle    newfangle   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    scorch    crumple    maim    lifeless    misshapen    wither    bony    bloody    contort    shrink