mangle — English Dictionary

Verb

1. To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail

   c. 1703-20, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage when they are disposed to mangle a play or a novel

2. To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.

   Usage

   • Transitive

Noun

1. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.

   Synonyms

   mangler

2. The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.

   Examples

   There was a bright-red plastic baby-bath, a car tyre, a rusty mangle, and something that looked like a primitive version of a washing machine.

Verb

1. To wring laundry.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Transitive

Noun

1. Synonym of mangrove. Any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora, especially the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle).

   Usage

   • Caribbean
   • US usage

2. Synonym of mangrove. A forest of such trees.

   Usage

   • Caribbean
   • US usage

3. Synonym of mangrove. Preceded by a descriptive word: any of various shrubs or trees of genera other than Rhizophora which resemble plants of this genus in appearance and habitat.

   Usage

   • Caribbean
   • US usage

Noun

1. clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers

   Broader terms

   clothes dryerclothes drier

Verb

1. press with a mangle

   Broader terms

   ironiron outpress

   Examples

   mangle the sheets

2. injure badly by beating

   Synonyms

   maul

   Broader terms

   defacedisfigureblemish

3. alter so as to make unrecognizable

   Synonyms

   mutilatemurder

   Broader terms

   falsifydistortgarblewarp

   Examples

   The tourists murdered the French language

4. damage or injure severely

   Synonyms

   mutilatecut up

   Broader terms

   damage

   Examples

   The madman mutilates art work