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mangle
Found in thesaurus: clothes drier, clothes dryer, press, iron, iron out, blemish, deface, disfigure, garble, distort, warp, falsify, damage
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mangle
v.
crush, disfigure, mutilate; ruin, destroy; smooth and flatten with a mangle
n.
mechanical device with large heated rollers which smooth and flatten linens
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Mangle
Mangle can refer to:
- Mangle (machine), a mechanical laundry aid consisting of two rollers
- Box mangle, an earlier laundry mangle using rollers and a heavy weight
- Mangled packet, in computing
- Mangrove, woody trees or shrubs
- Name mangling, in computing
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mangle
Noun
1. clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
(hypernym) clothes dryer, clothes drier
Verb
1. press with a mangle; "mangle the sheets"
(hypernym) iron, iron out
2. injure badly by beating
(synonym) maul
(hypernym) deface, disfigure, blemish
(entail) mutilate, mar
(derivation) mutilator, maimer, mangler
3. alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language"
(synonym) mutilate, murder
(hypernym) falsify, distort, garble, warp
4. destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work"
(synonym) mutilate, cut up
(hypernym) damage
(hyponym) deface
(derivation) mutilator, maimer, mangler
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mangeln
v.
lack, be short of, be without, be missing, need, want
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mangle
nm.
mangrove, tropical evergreen tree or shrub which grows in marshes or along tidal shores
