mangle
🇺🇸
/ˈmæŋɡl/
🇬🇧
/ˈmæŋɡl/
verb
R
to damage something by tearing or twisting it
Be careful with your fingers around that machine, you wouldn't want to mangle them.
R
to badly change something, like a language or music, by saying or playing it wrong
He tried to play the song, but he mangled it so badly that it was hardly recognizable.
noun
R
a machine with two rollers used for pressing water out of washed clothes
My grandmother still uses an old mangle to wring out laundry.
translation
to damage something by tearing or twisting it; to badly change something, like a language or music, by saying or playing it wrong
a machine with two rollers used for pressing water out of washed clothes
Word Forms
3rd Present
mangles
Past
mangled
Perfect
mangled
Progressive
mangling
Plural
mangles