The meaning of Mangled
Mangled – definition
verbPress or squeeze with a mangle.
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The hard household labour often involved pounding clothes in a dolly tub and mangling them with a h…
nounA machine having two or more rollers turned by a handle, between which wet laundry is squeezed to remove excess moisture.
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‘if i wasn't at school, i had to turn the handle on the mangle while mum put the sheets through,’ p…
adjectiveDestroyed by being twisted with force or torn into pieces so that the original form is completely changed
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All that remains of yesterday's car crash is a pile of mangled metal., he made fun of his own mangl…
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Word origin
late 17th century: from Dutch mangel, from mangelen ‘to mangle’, from medieval Latin mango, manga, from Greek manganon ‘axis, engine of war’.
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