Noun: mangle mang-gul
Usage: Brit
Usage: Brit
- Clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
"The hotel laundry used a mangle to press sheets efficiently"
- Damage or injure severely
"The madman mangles art work";
- mutilate, cut up
- Injure badly by beating
"The machine mangled his hand";
- maul
- Alter so as to make unrecognizable
"The tourists mangled the French language";
- mutilate, murder
- Press with a mangle
"mangle the sheets"
Sounds like: malting, moulting, moltngle, ma
Derived forms: mangles, mangled, mangling
Type of: blemish, clothes drier, clothes dryer, damage, deface, disfigure, distort, garble, iron, iron out, press, warp
Encyclopedia: Mangle