mangle
[verb]
Synonyms: crush, deform, destroy, disfigure, distort, mutilate, ruin, spoil, tear, wreck

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Related Words: damage, impair, injure, mar, deface, disfigure, contort, deform, distort, butcher, hack

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I. man‧gle¹ /ˈmæŋɡəl/ verb [transitive]
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Anglo-French; Origin: mangler, from Old French maynier; ⇒ maim]

1. to damage or injure something badly by crushing or twisting it:
The trap closed round her leg, badly mangling her ankle.

2. to spoil something such as a speech or piece of music, by saying or playing it badly:
The orchestra had mangled Bach’s music.
—mangled adjective [only before noun]:
the mangled remains of the aircraft

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II. mangle² noun [countable]
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Middle Dutch; Origin: mangel, from Middle High German mange 'mangle, military weapon for throwing rocks']
a machine used in former times to remove water from washed clothes by pressing them between two rollers

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