mangle

mangle is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 13 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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. transitive verb. To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or pertaining; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.
3. noun. A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure.
4. noun. To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.
5. noun. clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
6. verb. destroy or injure severely

   "The madman mutilates art work"

   Synonyms: mutilate

7. verb. alter so as to make unrecognizable

   "The tourists murdered the French language"

   Synonyms: murder, mutilate

8. verb. injure badly by beating

   Synonyms: maul

9. verb. press with a mangle

   "mangle the sheets"

Synonyms

mutilate, murder, maul

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in mangle:

legman, mangel, mlange

Common word forms

mangled, mangler, mangles, mangling

Words from these letters

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