Mangle

English

Verb

Mangle (third-person singular simple present Mangles, present participle mangling, simple past and past participle mangled)

1. (transitive) To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.
2. (transitive, archaic) To wring laundry.

Noun

Mangle (plural Mangles)

1. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
2. The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.

Adverbs for Mangle

hideously; shamefully; murderously.

Thesaurus

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

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  Rhymes: -æŋɡəl