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Mangle   /mˈæŋgəl/   Listen
Mangle

noun
1.
Clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers.
verb
(past & past part. mangled; pres. part. mangling)
1.
Press with a mangle.
2.
Injure badly by beating.  Synonym: maul.
3.
Alter so as to make unrecognizable.  Synonyms: murder, mutilate.
4.
Destroy or injure severely.  Synonyms: cut up, mutilate.



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"Mangle" Quotes from Famous Books



... (male) viro. Manage administri. Management administrado. Manager administranto. Mandate skribordono, komando. Mandarin Mandarino. Mane kolhararo. Manganese mangano. Mange bestjuko—skabio. Manger mangxujo. Mangle (to maim) senmembrigi. Manhood vireco. Mania manio. Maniac frenezulo. Manifest elmontri. Manifest evidenta. Manifest klara. Manifesto manifesto. Manifold multenombra. Manikin kvazauxhomo. Mankind homaro. Manly vira. ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... "any one can see you was born a gentleman; and I am a deal prouder to have you and your washing than I should him as pays you your wages. Pale eyes—pale hair—pale eyebrows—I wouldn't trust him to mangle a duster." ...
— Foul Play • Charles Reade
... terrific danger; in the swirl of those spumy and hissing waves it was all but impossible for them to make head against the current, and they felt it carry them nearer and nearer to the black, dripping mass, one blow of which would stun them, and one revolution of it mangle them with horrible mutilation. They reached the drowning wretch, and each seizing him by the arm, shouted for assistance, and buffeted gallantly with the headstrong stream. The senseless burden which they supported clogged their efforts, and as they felt themselves gradually ...
— Julian Home • Dean Frederic W. Farrar
... simply because they were not such clever fellows as Pope. There is something cruel in Pope's laughter, as in Swift's. The missiles are not mere filth, but are weighted with hard materials that bruise and mangle. He professes that his enemies were the first aggressors, a plea which can be only true in part; and he defends himself, feebly enough, against the obvious charge that he has ridiculed men for being ...
— Alexander Pope - English Men of Letters Series • Leslie Stephen
... stab, stab! Ah! the weapon between my teeth— I'm sick of the flash of it; See how the slash of it Misses the foeman to mangle the sheath! ...
— Black Beetles in Amber • Ambrose Bierce


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