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Definition of Mangle
Man´gle Pronunciation: măņ´g'l | v. t. | 1. | To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate. | | 2. | To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or performing; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation. | | n. | 1. | A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure, often with heated rollers. | | v. t. | 1. | To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth. |
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bung up, butcher, calender, contort, cripple, crush, damage, deface, defoliate, deform, denude, destroy, disfigure, dismember, distort, draw and quarter, flay, hack, hot-press, impair, injure, iron, lacerate, mar, maul, peel, pick to pieces, press, pull apart, roll, ruin, shred, skin, spoil, strip, take apart, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, wreck
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