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mangle

transitive verb mangled, mangling

  1. to mutilate or disfigure by repeatedly and roughly cutting, tearing, hacking, or crushing; lacerate and bruise badly
  2. to spoil; botch; mar; garble: to mangle a text

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noun

a machine for pressing and smoothing cloth, esp. sheets and other flat pieces, between heated rollers

transitive verb mangled, mangling

to press in a mangle

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See mangle in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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