To cut and slash or tear at random; wound jaggedly or by numerous cuts; hack; lacerate; disfigure by cutting, hacking, tearing, or crushing: applied chiefly to the cutting of flesh.

Figuratively, to destroy the symmetry or completeness of; mutilate; mar through ignorance, bungling, or malice.

Synonyms Maim, etc. See mutilate.

noun. A machine for smoothing fabrics or household articles of linen or cotton, as sheets, table-cloths, napkins, and towels.

To smooth with a mangle; calender.

noun. See plate-straightening rolls.

transitive verb. To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.

noun. A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure, often with heated rollers.

noun. a contrivance for converting continuous circular motion into reciprocating rectilinear motion, by means of a rack and pinion, as in the mangle. The pinion is held to the rack by a groove in such a manner that it passes alternately from one side of the rack to the other, and thus gives motion to it in opposite directions, according to the side in which its teeth are engaged.

noun. a wheel in which the teeth, or pins, on its face, are interrupted on one side, and the pinion, working in them, passes from inside to outside of the teeth alternately, thus converting the continuous circular motion of the pinion into a reciprocating circular motion of the wheel.

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or performing.

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

verb. To wring laundry.

verb. To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.

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

noun. The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.

verb. injure badly by beating

verb. press with a mangle

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

verb. destroy or injure severely

verb. alter so as to make unrecognizable

"Rhizopora mangle is the most frequently occurring mangrove species and is found closest to the coast at heights of up to 25 m."

mangled  mangling  

blemish  clothes drier  clothes dryer  damage  deface  

Angle  Wrangell  angle  bangle  dangle  

bloody  bony  contort  crumple  diseased  

bung up  bungle  butcher  calender  contort  

mangled  mangles  mangling