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man·gle

1   [mang-guhl]
verb (used with object), -gled, -gling.
1.
to injure severely, disfigure, or mutilate by cutting, slashing, or crushing: The coat sleeve was mangled in the gears of the machine.
2.
to spoil; ruin; mar badly: to mangle a text by careless typesetting.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-French mangler, perhaps dissimilated variant of Old French mangonner to mangle; akin to mangonel

Related forms
man·gler, noun

Synonyms
1. See maim. 2. deface; destroy.

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  • No joke, however robust, can stand the strain of being run through the legislative mangle.
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man·gle

2   [mang-guhl] noun, verb, -gled, -gling.
noun
1.
a machine for smoothing or pressing clothes, household linen, etc., by means of heated rollers.
verb (used with object)
2.
to smooth or press with a mangle.
3.
Metalworking. to squeeze (metal plates) between rollers.
Origin:
1765–75; < Dutch mangel ≪ Late Latin manganum. See mangonel
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mangle1 (ˈmæŋɡəl)
 
—vb
1.  to mutilate, disfigure, or destroy by cutting, crushing, or tearing
2.  to ruin, spoil, or mar
 
[C14: from Norman French mangler, probably from Old French mahaignier to maim]
 
'mangler1
 
—n
 
'mangled1
 
—adj

mangle2 (ˈmæŋɡəl)
 
—n
1.  Also called: wringer a machine for pressing or drying wet textiles, clothes, etc, consisting of two heavy rollers between which the cloth is passed
 
—vb
2.  to press or dry in a mangle
 
[C18: from Dutch mangel, ultimately from Late Latin manganum. See mangonel]

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mangle
c.1400, from Anglo-Fr. mangler, freq. of O.Fr. mangoner "cut to pieces," of uncertain origin, perhaps connected with O.Fr. mahaignier "to maim, mutilate, wound" (see maim). Meaning "to mispronounce (words), garble" is from 1530s. Related: Mangled.
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mangle definition


Used similarly to mung or scribble, but more violent in its connotations; something that is mangled has been irreversibly and totally trashed.

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © Denis Howe 2010 http://foldoc.org
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