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Noun: mangle  mang-gul
Usage: Brit
  1. Clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
Verb: mangle  mang-gul
  1. Press with a mangle
    "mangle the sheets"
     
  2. Injure badly by beating
    - maul
     
  3. Alter so as to make unrecognizable
    "The tourists mangled the French language";
    - mutilate, murder
     
  4. Damage or injure severely
    "The madman mangles art work";
    - mutilate, cut up

Sounds like: malting, moulting, moltngle, ma

Derived forms: mangled, mangles, mangling

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

Encyclopedia: Mangle