EGAVE

mangle

About 0.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc.
  2. verb To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
  3. noun A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
  4. noun The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
  5. verb To wring laundry.
  6. noun Synonym of mangrove. Any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora, especially the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle). A forest of such trees. Preceded by a descriptive word: any of various shrubs or trees of genera other than Rhizophora which resemble plants of this genus in appearance and habitat.
  7. noun Any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora, especially the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle).
  8. noun A forest of such trees.

Similar words

mutilate disfigure murder cut up maul mar mingle ironer iron bemangle

Often followed by

the and of it in a his or is

Word family

mangled mangles mangling

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