MANGLE


Meaning of MANGLE in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

mangled/tangled/twisted wreckage

Recovery teams continue to clear the tangled wreckage.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A mangled bicycle lay by the railroad tracks.

People joke about Branston's ability to mangle the English language.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As far as anybody knew, he'd mangled himself while helping a friend with some car repairs.

He had mangled his hand in machinery at the potato mill.

The impact had mangled the plane but not caused a fire.

Those of an unkind disposition might argue that mangling a non-first-class attack is not an especially big deal.

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He pushed the harmonium into the place where the mangle had stood, then sat down to sup his mug of tea.

I still have the big iron mangle she used to wring out the clothes.

Note the rollers of the mangle carved on either side of the window frame.

On one occasion, the owner of the house got both hands caught in a mangle .

The extra power in his mechanized hands had acted like a mangle .

The yard in front of the cottage was littered with discarded buckets, an old bath, a mangle and a pile of driftwood.

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