mangle

[man·gle]

When you mangle something, you completely destroy it, by ripping, cutting, crushing, or otherwise mauling it into pieces.

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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.

Noun
clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers

Verb
destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work"

Verb
alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language"

Verb
injure badly by beating

Verb
press with a mangle; "mangle the sheets"

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v. t.
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. t.
To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or pertaining; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.

n.
A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure.

n.
To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.

Mangle

Man"gle , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mangled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Mangling .] [A frequentative fr. OE. manken to main, AS. mancian, in bemancian to mutilate, fr. L. mancus maimed; perh. akin to G. mangeln to be wanting.] 1. 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.

Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.

2. To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or pertaining; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.

To mangle a play or a novel.

Mangle

Man"gle, n. [D. mangel, fr. OE. mangonel a machine for throwing stones, LL. manganum, Gr. a machine for defending fortifications, axis of a pulley. Cf. Mangonel.] A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure. Mangle rack (Mach.), a contrivance for converting continuous circular motion into reciprocating rectilinear motion, by means of a rack and pinion, as in the mangle. The pinion is held to the rack by a groove in such a manner that it passes alternately from one side of the rack to the other, and thus gives motion to it in opposite directions, according to the side in which its teeth are engaged. -- Mangle wheel, a wheel in which the teeth, or pins, on its face, are interrupted on one side, and the pinion, working in them, passes from inside to outside of the teeth alternately, thus converting the continuous circular motion of the pinion into a reciprocating circular motion of the wheel.

Mangle

Man"gle , v. t. [Cf. D. mangelen. See Mangle, n.] To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.

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.

A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure.

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