I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mangled/tangled/twisted wreckage
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Recovery teams continue to clear the tangled wreckage.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A mangled bicycle lay by the railroad tracks.
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People joke about Branston's ability to mangle the English language.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As far as anybody knew, he'd mangled himself while helping a friend with some car repairs.
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He had mangled his hand in machinery at the potato mill.
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The impact had mangled the plane but not caused a fire.
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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
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He pushed the harmonium into the place where the mangle had stood, then sat down to sup his mug of tea.
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I still have the big iron mangle she used to wring out the clothes.
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Note the rollers of the mangle carved on either side of the window frame.
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On one occasion, the owner of the house got both hands caught in a mangle .
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The extra power in his mechanized hands had acted like a mangle .
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The yard in front of the cottage was littered with discarded buckets, an old bath, a mangle and a pile of driftwood.