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man·gle 1       (māng'gəl)  Pronunciation Key  tr.v.   man·gled, man·gling, man·gles To mutilate or disfigure by battering, hacking, cutting, or tearing. See Synonyms at batter1. To ruin or spoil through ineptitude or ignorance: mangle a speech. [Middle English manglen, from Anglo-Norman mangler, frequentative of Old French mangoner, to cut to bits; possibly akin to mahaignier, to maim; see mayhem.] man'gler n.

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man·gle 2       (māng'gəl)  Pronunciation Key  n.   A machine for pressing fabrics by means of heated rollers. Chiefly British A clothes wringer. tr.v.   man·gled, man·gling, man·gles To press with a mangle. [Dutch mangel, from German, from Middle High German, diminutive of mange, mangonel, from Late Latin manganum, catapult; see mangonel.]

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mangle
noun
1.	clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
verb
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"
4.	destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work" [syn: mutilate]

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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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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.

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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.

Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. --Milton.

2. To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or pertaining; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.

To mangle a play or a novel. --Swift.

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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.

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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Mangle

Man"gle\, v. t. [Cf. D. mangelen. See Mangle, n.] To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.