mangle
Plural: mangles
Noun
- clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
- A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
- The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
- Synonym of mangrove.
- Any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora, especially the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle).
- Synonym of mangrove.
- A forest of such trees.
- Synonym of mangrove.
- Preceded by a descriptive word: any of various shrubs or trees of genera other than Rhizophora which resemble plants of this genus in appearance and habitat.
Verb
Verb Forms: mangled, mangling, mangles
- To severely damage or disfigure by cutting, crushing, or twisting.
- press with a mangle
- "mangle the sheets"
- injure badly by beating
- alter so as to make unrecognizable
- destroy or injure severely
- To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc.
- To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
- To wring laundry.
Examples
- He tried to MANGLE the definition of ’QI’ to fit his narrative, but the dictionary remained steadfast.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English mangelen, manglen, from Anglo-Norman mangler, mahangler, frequentative of either Old French mangonner (“to cut to pieces”) or mahaigner (“to mutilate”), of Germanic origin, for which see mayhem.
Alternate etymology derives mangle from Middle English *mankelen, a frequentative form of manken (“to mutilate”), from Old English *mancian, bemancian (“to maim”). More at mank.
Scrabble Score: 9
mangle: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmangle: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mangle: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary