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Noun: mangle  manggul
Usage: Brit
  1. Clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
Verb: mangle  manggul
  1. Press with a mangle
    "mangle the sheets"
     
  2. Injure badly by beating
    - maul
     
  3. Alter so as to make unrecognizable
    - mutilate, murder
     
  4. Destroy or injure severely
    - mutilate, cut up

Derived forms: mangling, mangled, mangles

See also: mangler

Type of: blemish, clothes drier, clothes dryer, damage, deface, disfigure, distort, falsify, garble, iron, iron out, press, warp

Encyclopedia: Mangle