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Verb
/ˈmaNGgəl/,
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mangles, 3rd person singular present; mangling, present participle; mangled, past tense; mangled, past participle;
  1. Press or squeeze with a mangle

Noun
  1. A large machine for ironing sheets or other fabrics, usually when they are damp, using heated rollers

  2. A machine having two or more cylinders turned by a handle, between which wet laundry is squeezed (to remove excess moisture) and pressed

  1. clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
  2. press with a mangle; "mangle the sheets"
  3. maul: injure badly by beating
  4. alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language"
  5. mutilate: destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work"
  6. Mangle is a comic book villain that appeared in the Malibu Comics Ultraverse book The Night Man.
  7. A mangle (as it is called in the United Kingdom) or wringer (as it is called in the United States) 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. ...
  8. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry; The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer; To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc; To wring laundry
  9. (mangling) An act in which something is mangled
  10. a machine consisting of a crank attached to two rollers, used to wring water out of clothes.
  11. n. 1. Large rollers used to squeeze water from wet clothes, i.e. the ringer-part of a ringer washer.
  12. mangrove (Rhizophora mangle)