[mang-guh
l] 
| 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. |
[mang-guhl] noun, verb, -gled, -gling.| 1. | a machine for smoothing or pressing clothes, household linen, etc., by means of heated rollers. |
| 2. | to smooth or press with a mangle. |
| 3. | Metalworking. to squeeze (metal plates) between rollers. |
| man·gle 1 (māng'gəl) tr.v. man·gled, man·gling, man·gles
[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. |
| man·gle 2 (māng'gəl) n.
To press with a mangle. [Dutch mangel, from German, from Middle High German, diminutive of mange, mangonel, from Late Latin manganum, catapult; see mangonel.] |