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mangle

/ mangle /
noun/verb

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
Type of:
clothes dryer clothes drier
verb Sense 2
alter so as to make unrecognizable
"The tourists murdered the French language"
Type of:
falsify distort garble
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
verb Sense 3
press with a mangle
"mangle the sheets"
Type of:
iron iron out
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
verb Sense 4
destroy or injure severely
"The madman mutilates art work"
Type of:
damage
Kinds of:
deface
Derived:
mutilator maimer mangler mutilation
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
verb Sense 5
injure badly by beating
Type of:
deface disfigure blemish
Derived:
mutilator maimer mangler mauler
Entails:
mutilate mar injure
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something with something
Somebody ----s on something
Semantic Complexity
71%
Sense Count
5
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
23
Times Searched
3
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clothes dryer clothes drier falsify distort garble iron iron out damage deface disfigure blemish