Definitions for mangle
ˈmæŋ gəlman·gle

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. mangleverb

   clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers

2. mangleverb

   press with a mangle

   "mangle the sheets"

3. maul, mangleverb

   injure badly by beating

4. mangle, mutilate, murderverb

   alter so as to make unrecognizable

   "The tourists murdered the French language"

5. mutilate, mangle, cut upverb

   destroy or injure severely

   "The madman mutilates art work"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. manglenoun

   A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.

2. manglenoun

   The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.

3. mangleverb

   To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.

4. mangleverb

   To wring laundry.

5. Etymology: From mangelen, from mangler, mahangler, frequentative of either mangonner or mahaigner, of origin, for which see mayhem. Compare also mangolon (> German mangeln).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To MANGLEverb

   To lacerate; to cut or tear piece-meal; to butcher.

   Etymology: mangelen, Dutch, to be wanting; mancus, Latin.

   Cassio, may you suspect
   Who they should be, that thus have mangled you? William Shakespeare.

   Your dishonour
   Mangles true judgment, and bereaves the state
   Of that integrity which should become it. William Shakespeare.

   Thoughts my tormentors arm’d with deadly stings,
   Mangle my apprehensive tenderest parts,
   Exasperate, exulcerate, and raise
   Dire inflammation, which no cooling herb,
   Or medicinal liquor can assuage. John Milton, Agonistes.

   The triple porter of the Stygian seat,
   With lolling tongue, lay fawning at thy feet,
   And, seiz’d with fear, forgot his mangled meat. Dryden.

   What could swords or poison, racks or flame,
   But mangle and disjoint this brittle frame!
   More fatal Henry’s words; they murder Emma’s fame. Matthew Prior.

   It is hard, that not one gentleman’s daughter should read or understand her own natural tongue; as any one may find, who can hear them when they are disposed to mangle a play or a novel, where the least word out of the common road disconcerts them. Jonathan Swift, to a young Lady.

   They have joined the most obdurate consonants without one intervening vowel, only to shorten a syllable; so that most of the books we see now-a-days, are full of those manglings and abbreviations. Jonathan Swift, Let. to the Ld. Treasurer.

   Inextricable difficulties occur by mangling the sense, and curtailing authors. Thomas Baker, Reflections on Learning.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mangle

   Mangle can be used as both a verb and a noun with different meanings. As a verb, 'mangle' often refers to damaging, disfiguring, or ruining something severely, often to the point that it is unrecognizable or unusable. This can be physical like objects, body parts, or metaphorical like a piece of information, languages, etc. As a noun, 'mangle' historically refers to a type of mechanical laundry aid used for wringing water out of clothes. It's important to note that the usage could differ based on cultural context and situation.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Mangleverb

   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

2. Mangleverb

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

3. Manglenoun

   a machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure

4. Manglenoun

   to smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth

5. Etymology: [D. mangel, fr. OE. mangonel a machine for throwing stones, LL. manganum, Gr. a machine for defending fortifications, axis of a pulley. Cf. Mangonel.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Mangle

   A mangle or wringer is a mechanical laundry aid consisting of two rollers in a sturdy frame, connected by cogs and, in its home version, powered by a hand crank or electrically. While the appliance was originally used to wring water from wet laundry, today mangles are used to press or flatten sheets, tablecloths, kitchen towels, or clothing and other laundry.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Mangle

   mang′gl, v.t. to cut and bruise: to tear in cutting: to mutilate: to take by piecemeal.—n. Mang′ler. [Skeat suggests a freq. form of O. Fr. mahaigner, to maim—mehaing, a hurt.]

2. Mangle

   mang′gl, n. a rolling-press for smoothing linen.—v.t. to smooth with a mangle: to calender.—n. Mang′ler. [Dut. mangelen, to roll with a rolling-pin, through Low L., from Gr. manganon, the axis of a pulley.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mangle

   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.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. manglenoun

   A pair of rollers, driven by a hand crank or electrically, that squeezed water out of wet laundry. In the days before spin dryers came into use, a mangle was typically attached to a laundry washing machine and mounted above it so that the person doing the laundry would lift the wet laundry from the washer and feed it directly into the rollers, with the water squeezed out dropping back into the laundry machine.

   
   

   Submitted by Greying_Geezer on May 8, 2023  

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. MANGLE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mangle is ranked #60347 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Mangle surname appeared 334 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Mangle.
   
   61% or 204 total occurrences were White.
   33.8% or 113 total occurrences were Black.
   2.6% or 9 total occurrences were Asian.
   1.5% or 5 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

1. • Disfigure
   • Distort
   • Iron

Anagrams for mangle »

1. leg man

2. legman

3. mangel

How to pronounce mangle?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of mangle in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of mangle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of mangle in a Sentence

1. Bruce Wells:

   My hunch on the Ditka quote is that it comes from a quirk of the King James translation, ancient Hebrew had a particular way of saying things like, 'and the next thing that happened was...' The King James translators of the Old Testament consistently rendered this as 'and it came to pass.' ''When phantom Bible passages turn dangerousPeople may get verses wrong, but they also mangle plenty of well-known biblical stories as well.Two examples: The scripture never says a whale swallowed Jonah, the Old Testament prophet, nor did any New Testament passages say that three wise men visited baby Jesus, scholars say.Those details may seem minor, but scholars say one popular phantom Bible story stands above the rest: The Genesis story about the fall of humanity.Most people know the popular version - Satan in the guise of a serpent tempts Eve to pick the forbidden apple from the Tree of Life. It's been downhill ever since.But the story in the book of Genesis never places Satan in the Garden of Eden.

2. Bruce Wells:

   My hunch on the Ditka quote is that it comes from a quirk of the King James translation, ancient Hebrew had a particular way of saying things like, 'and the next thing that happened was...' The King James translators of the Old Testament consistently rendered this as 'and it came to pass.' '' When phantom Bible passages turn dangerous People may get verses wrong, but they also mangle plenty of well-known biblical stories as well. Two examples: The scripture never says a whale swallowed Jonah, the Old Testament prophet, nor did any New Testament passages say that three wise men visited baby Jesus, scholars say. Those details may seem minor, but scholars say one popular phantom Bible story stands above the rest: The Genesis story about the fall of humanity. Most people know the popular version - Satan in the guise of a serpent tempts Eve to pick the forbidden apple from the Tree of Life. It's been downhill ever since. But the story in the book of Genesis never places Satan in the Garden of Eden.

3. David Davis:

   Be in no doubt: under the government's proposal our fingers would still be caught in this mangle and the EU would use it ruthlessly to punish us for leaving and handicap our future competitiveness.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=mangle
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mangle
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=mangle
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mangle
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=mangle
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=mangle
8. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Mangle
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html