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mangle::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | clothes drier, clothes dryer |
Examples of mangle
mangle
We had gas lighting and my mother did the laundry with a dolly tub and mangle.
From the newsandstar.co.uk
To mangle a metaphor, Murdoch's problem is that his papers have come home to roost.
From the businessweek.com
I've been told the French are unforgiving with Americans who mangle their language.
From the suntimes.com
I felt like a student who had managed not to mangle the Kreisler Liebesleid.
From the online.wsj.com
Many of these were simply a tub on legs, with a hand-operated mangle on top.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The new Kong does accidentally mangle a few people, but there's no real rage in him.
From the time.com
You would have to make it turn it into a sci-fi comedy to really mangle it.
From the sfgate.com
Maybe he would mangle a name or date here and there, but he never missed a punch line.
From the charlotteobserver.com
I'm not even going to pretend he's going to mangle the language on an everyday basis.
From the suntimes.com
- Clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
- Press with a mangle; "mangle the sheets"
- Maul: injure badly by beating
- Alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language"
- Mutilate: destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work"
- Mangle is a comic book villain that appeared in the Malibu Comics Ultraverse book The Night Man.
- A mangle (as it is called in the United Kingdom) or wringer (as it is called in the United States) is a mechanical laundry aid consisting of two rollers in a sturdy frame, connected by cogs and, in its home version, powered by a hand crank or electrically. ...
- A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry; The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer; To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc; To wring laundry
- (mangling) An act in which something is mangled
