mangle
man·gle (maŋ′gəl)
transitive verb -·gled, -·gling
- to mutilate or disfigure by repeatedly and roughly cutting, tearing, hacking, or crushing; lacerate and bruise badly
- to spoil; botch; mar; garble to mangle a text
Etymology: ME manglen < Anglo-Fr mangler, prob. freq. of OFr mehaigner, maim
man·gle (maŋ′gəl)
noun
a machine for pressing and smoothing cloth, esp. sheets and other flat pieces, between heated rollers
Etymology: Du mangel < Ger < MHG, dim. of mange, a mangle < L manganum < Gr manganon, war machine, orig. deceptive device < IE base *meng-, to embellish deceptively > MIr meng, deceit, L mango, falsifying dealer
transitive verb -·gled, -·gling
to press in a mangle
mangle
v.
Object
- wreckage: Here we see the mangled wreckage still in flames.
- corpse: Her mangled corpse was buried in the Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula.
- corps: The beasts tore the victims limb from limb and made poor mangled corpses of them in the twinkling of an eye.
- limb: Children have been born without eyes, with twisted, mangled limbs, even without brains.
- mess: You may see a more bloody badger end, A squashed and mangled mess as you motor past the hedgerows.
- body: Their mangled bodies were flung into the streets; the gutters were choked with their blood.
Converse of object
- use: Behind them a third girl is using a small mangle to wring out the clothes.
- turn: Then I worked for a lady and turned the mangle which was seemingly hard work.
- have: We had a big wooden mangle out in the back yard.
Adjective modifier
- big: We had a big wooden mangle out in the back yard.
Modifies a noun
- table: The mangle table is more rarely used to implement traffic control policies, for example altering the quality of service options of packets.
Modifying Another Word
- horribly: Every second, more bodies mount up, horribly mangled.
- badly: A wealth of information, posters, photographs, interviews and of course title sequences but mangled badly by whoever organized it.
- completely: Both forward aluminum ladders were completely mangled by the bad weather.
- so: The English names were often so mangled by Spanish printers that it was hard to make them out.
- not: We were not mangled in our creation; God, that made the whole, must have the whole.
- all: The front of the bus was all mangled and the windscreen was totally shattered.
Noun used with modifier
- box: Examples of the box mangle can be seen locally in the Oakham County Museum.
Preposition: of
- language: I apologize to any native Welsh speakers who are appalled by my tortured mangling of this beautiful language.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- up: He shouldn't be in the game if he ain't willing to mangle up his body.
I pass my whole life, miss, in turning an immense pecuniary Mangle.
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