MANGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mangle mean? 

• MANGLE (noun)
  The noun MANGLE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: MANGLE used as a noun is very rare.

• MANGLE (verb)
  The verb MANGLE has 4 senses:

1. press with a mangle

2. injure badly by beating

3. alter so as to make unrecognizable

4. destroy or injure severely

  Familiarity information: MANGLE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANGLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("mangle" is a kind of...):

clothes drier; clothes dryer (a dryer that dries clothes wet from washing)

Derivation:

mangle (press with a mangle)

• MANGLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they mangle    ... he / she / it mangles   
Past simple: mangled   
Past participle: mangled   
-ing form: mangling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Press with a mangle

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

mangle the sheets

Hypernyms (to "mangle" is one way to...):

iron; iron out; press (press and smooth with a heated iron)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They mangle the cape

Derivation:

mangle (clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Injure badly by beating

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

mangle; maul

Hypernyms (to "mangle" is one way to...):

blemish; deface; disfigure (mar or spoil the appearance of)

"Mangle" entails doing...:

injure; wound (cause injuries or bodily harm to)

mar; mutilate (destroy or injure severely)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

mangler (a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Alter so as to make unrecognizable

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

mangle; murder; mutilate

Context example:

The tourists murdered the French language

Hypernyms (to "mangle" is one way to...):

distort; falsify; garble; warp (make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Destroy or injure severely

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

cut up; mangle; mutilate

Context example:

The madman mutilates art work

Hypernyms (to "mangle" is one way to...):

damage (inflict damage upon)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

mangler (a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples)

 Context examples 

"No overworking. No working at night. And no children at the mangles. No children anywhere. And a fair wage."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His grasp relaxed, his feet slipped, and in an instant he was a crushed and mangled corpse upon the sharp ridges beneath him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A torn, ragged, mangled wound, or an accidental cut of esophagus.

(Laceration Of Esophagus, NCI Thesaurus)

Their method was to fall forward with their full weight upon each in turn, leaving him crushed and mangled, to bound on after the others.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The remains of the half-finished creature, whom I had destroyed, lay scattered on the floor, and I almost felt as if I had mangled the living flesh of a human being.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

At last he fell, toppling backward, exhausted; and the bull-dog promptly shifted his grip, getting in closer, mangling more and more of the fur- folded flesh, throttling White Fang more severely than ever.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

My cursed imagination saw her beaten and mangled against the rocks, and it was too terrible.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Yep, has fits,” the man said, hiding his mangled hand from the baggageman, who had been attracted by the sounds of struggle.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

With much labour we separated them and carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)