Definitions for mangles

mangles man·gle

Spelling: [mang-guh l]
IPA: /ˈmæŋ gəl/

Mangles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 254 anagrams from letters in mangles (aeglmns).

Definitions for mangles

noun

  1. a machine for smoothing or pressing clothes, household linen, etc., by means of heated rollers.

verb (used with object)

  1. to injure severely, disfigure, or mutilate by cutting, slashing, or crushing:
  2. to spoil; ruin; mar badly:
  3. to smooth or press with a mangle.
  4. Metalworking. to squeeze (metal plates) between rollers.

Origin of mangles

1350-1400; Middle English Anglo-French mangler, perhaps dissimilated variant of Old French mangonner to mangle; akin to mangonel

Examples for mangles

They had her give the weather update, and even let her mangle the word “amok.”

How should I fret to mangle every line, In reverence to the sins of thirty-nine!

She was then upstairs in the laundry arranging the linen for the mangle.

We do not speak of such expressions as, Has your mother sold her mangle?

Gretchen stepped lightly over her mangle and dropped a curtsey.

There, you can hear her screeching now, worse than the mangle, ever so much.

American ingenuity has greatly improved the machinery of the mangle.

Hannah might expend her energy in flat-ironing, and Josiah could turn the mangle.

Just help me wring these out, and then I'll take 'em to th' mangle.

Must they mangle the corpse when they have extinguished life?

Word Value for mangles
Scrable

9

Words with friends

13

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