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Mangle Very Common

Mangle has 10 different meanings across 3 categories:

Noun · Verb · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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

2

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

3

mangrove (tree)

Verb
1

press with a mangle

"mangle the sheets"

2

injure badly by beating

3

alter so as to make unrecognizable

"The tourists murdered the French language"

4

destroy or injure severely

"The madman mutilates art work"

5

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

6

To wring laundry.

Proper Noun
1

A surname​.

Example Sentences
"mangle the sheets" verb
"The tourists murdered the French language" verb
"The madman mutilates art work" verb
See Also
laundry mangler disfigure scamble internal wringer ironer mutilate
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
clothes dryer iron deface falsify damage
Rhyming Words
egle ogle ingle regle aegle nagle fogle engle vogle bugle angle bogle fugle oggle gangle waggle jiggle gaggle muggle wiggle
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