Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive 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.
- 2transitive verb
To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or pertaining; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.
- 3noun
A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure.
- 4noun
To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.
- 5noun
clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
- 6verb
destroy or injure severely
"The madman mutilates art work"
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- 7verb
alter so as to make unrecognizable
"The tourists murdered the French language"
- 8verb
injure badly by beating
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- 9verb
press with a mangle
"mangle the sheets"
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