0 to destroy something by twisting it with force or tearing it into pieces so that its original form is completely changed: --
1 a machine used for pressing water out of clothes by putting the clothes between two heavy, smooth, round bars --
2 to destroy something by twisting it with force or tearing it so that its original form is changed: --
fig. The text was so mangled in translation that it was impossible to be sure of the meaning.
His car was mangled when it slammed head-on into a semitrailer truck.
Among the articles will be found electric kettles, smoothing irons, interval timers, kitchen scales, wringers, and mangles.
Some of these publications even come in via one of these new-fangled mangles.
I thought that the trustees would have the government director's fingers well and truly stuck in their mangle, and a very good thing too.
There was a washing mangle in the middle of the room.
But put these elementary and self-evident facts through the mangle of your present financial system, and see how they come out.
It is rather like having a mangle in the house or any other such article.
I remember as a boy that my grandmother had a mangle.
Any attempt to control them by a uniform set of rules must risk mangling one of them.
