mangle
pronunciation
How to pronounce mangle in British English:
UK [ˈmæŋɡl]
How to pronounce mangle in American English:
US [ˈmæŋɡl]
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- Noun:
- clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
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- Verb:
- press with a mangle
- injure badly by beating
- alter so as to make unrecognizable
- destroy or injure severely
Word Origin
- mangle
- mangle: see maim
- mangle (v.)
- "to mutilate," c. 1400, from Anglo-French mangler, frequentative of Old French mangoner "cut to pieces," of uncertain origin, perhaps connected with Old French mahaignier "to maim, mutilate, wound" (see maim). Meaning "to mispronounce (words), garble" is from 1530s. Related: Mangled; mangling.
- mangle (n.)
- clothes-pressing machine, 1774, from Dutch mangel, apparently short for mangelstok, from stem of mangelen to mangle, from Middle Dutch mange, ultimately from root of mangonel.
Example
- 1. Adhere to growl and then a separate priority , rake , mangle .
- 2. Notice amplifier test have mangle danger .
- 3. Instead they must mangle text in new ways when attackers figure out how to cope with existing distortions .
- 4. Mangle a text by poor typesetting .
- 5. I mangle their faces , till no featuresremain .