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Meaning of mangle

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  mangle
      n 1: clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it
           between two heavy heated rollers
      v 1: press with a mangle; "mangle the sheets"
      2: injure badly by beating [syn: {maul}, {mangle}]
      3: alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered
         the French language" [syn: {mangle}, {mutilate}, {murder}]
      4: destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work"
         [syn: {mutilate}, {mangle}, {cut up}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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