Definitions for mangle

mangle man·gle

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

Mangle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 132 anagrams from letters in mangle (aeglmn).

Definitions for mangle

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 mangle

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

Examples for mangle

Must they mangle the corpse when they have extinguished life?

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

American ingenuity has greatly improved the machinery of the mangle.

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

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

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

Gretchen stepped lightly over her mangle and dropped a curtsey.

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

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

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

Word Value for mangle
Scrable

9

Words with friends

13

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