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man⋅gle

1  [mang-guhl]
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–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; ME < AF mangler, perh. dissimilated var. of OF mangonner to mangle; akin to mangonel

Related forms:
mangler, noun

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

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; < D mangel ≪ LL manganum. See mangonel
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man·gle 1   (māng'gəl)   
tr.v.   man·gled, man·gling, man·gles

  1. To mutilate or disfigure by battering, hacking, cutting, or tearing. See Synonyms at batter1.

  2. 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.
man·gle 2   (māng'gəl)   
n.  

  1. A machine for pressing fabrics by means of heated rollers.

  2. 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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Word Origin & History

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 1533.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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