Synonyms for mangle
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : mang-guh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmæŋ gəl |
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Définition of mangle
Origin :- "to mutilate," c.1400, from Anglo-French mangler, frequentative of Old French mangoner "cut to pieces," of uncertain origin, perhaps connected with Old French mahaignier "to maim, mutilate, wound" (see maim). Meaning "to mispronounce (words), garble" is from 1530s. Related: Mangled; mangling.
- verb mutilate, deform
- We do not speak of such expressions as, Has your mother sold her mangle?
- Extract from : « The Comic Latin Grammar » by Percival Leigh
- Must they mangle the corpse when they have extinguished life?
- Extract from : « Nuts and Nutcrackers » by Charles James Lever
- Hannah might expend her energy in flat-ironing, and Josiah could turn the mangle.
- Extract from : « Novel Notes » by Jerome K. Jerome
- How should I fret to mangle every line, In reverence to the sins of thirty-nine!
- Extract from : « Essay on Man » by Alexander Pope
- Gretchen stepped lightly over her mangle and dropped a curtsey.
- Extract from : « Terribly Intimate Portraits » by Nol Coward
- American ingenuity has greatly improved the machinery of the mangle.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 » by Various
- Just help me wring these out, and then I'll take 'em to th' mangle.
- Extract from : « Mary Barton » by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- She was then upstairs in the laundry arranging the linen for the mangle.
- Extract from : « Historic Oddities » by Sabine Baring-Gould
- There, you can hear her screeching now, worse than the mangle, ever so much.
- Extract from : « Cradock Nowell, Vol. 2 (of 3) » by Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- You should hear her mangle Italian, which she has just begun.
- Extract from : « Rose Clark » by Fanny Fern
Antonyms for mangle
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