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 Definitions for mangle: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Mangle \Man"gle\ (m[a^][ng]"g'l), v. t. [Cf. D. mangelen. See
Mangle, n.]
To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Mangle \Man"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mangled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Mangling.] [A frequentative fr. OE. manken to main, AS.
mancian, in bemancian to mutilate, fr. L. mancus maimed;
perh. akin to G. mangeln to be wanting.]
1. 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.
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Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.
--Milton.
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2. To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or performing;
as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.
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To mangle a play or a novel. --Swift.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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mangle \man"gle\, n. [D. mangel, fr. OE. mangonel a machine for
throwing stones, LL. manganum, Gr. ? a machine for defending
fortifications, axis of a pulley. Cf. Mangonel.]
A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets,
tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure, often
with heated rollers.
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Mangle rack (Mach.), 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.
Mangle wheel, 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.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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mangle
n : clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it
between two heavy heated rollers
v 1: press with a mangle; "mangle the sheets"
2: injure badly by beating [syn: maul]
3: alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered
the French language" [syn: mutilate, murder]
4: destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work"
[syn: mutilate, cut up]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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43 Moby Thesaurus words for "mangle":
bung up, butcher, calender, contort, cripple, crush, cut, damage,
deface, defoliate, deform, denude, destroy, disfigure, dismember,
distort, draw and quarter, flay, hack, hot-press, impair, injure,
iron, lacerate, maim, mar, maul, mutilate, peel, pick to pieces,
press, pull apart, roll, ruin, shred, skin, spoil, strip,
take apart, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, wreck
Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
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mangle vt. 1. Used similarly to mung or scribble, but more violent
in its connotations; something that is mangled has been irreversibly and
totally trashed. 2. To produce the mangled name corresponding to a C++
declaration.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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mangle
Used similarly to mung or scribble, but more violent
in its connotations; something that is mangled has been
irreversibly and totally trashed.
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