Mangle

Quick meaning: Mangle is a verb meaning (transitive) To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
2. The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
3. (transitive, archaic) To wring laundry.
4. (transitive, computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
5. (chiefly Caribbean, US) Synonym of mangrove.

Example Sentences

mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail

c. 1703-20, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage when they are disposed to mangle a play or a novel

There was a bright-red plastic baby-bath, a car tyre, a rusty mangle, and something that looked like a primitive version of a washing machine.

Word Forms

• mangles
• mangling
• mangled

Synonyms for mangle

Depending on context, synonyms include mangler, mutilate, cut up, murder, disfigure, maul.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mutilate, disfigure, murder, cut up, maul, mar.

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