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verb ˈmaŋɡ(ə)lˈmæŋɡəl [with object]1Destroy or severely damage by tearing or crushing. the car was mangled almost beyond recognition 这辆轿车被毁得面目全非。 Example sentencesExamples - Television footage showed a scene of massive devastation, including badly mangled cars and injured people being carried away.
- One of the top offenders, according to critics, is the former German captain, who regularly mangles his sentences.
- I don't think she liked the way I was mangling her language.
- The aircraft was heavily damaged with the prop destroyed and one wing mangled.
- Knowingly or not, these critics are mangling the facts to prove a debatable point and in the process damaging their own cause.
- The dais was in the form of a human whose skeleton was mangled beyond recognition.
- She quickly set to work, chopping vegetables into little mangled bits and depositing the mess into a huge steel pot.
- Or, the lift wreckage would become mangled inside the tubing, preventing any further use of that tube.
- Kristy had been badly bruised, had cuts all over her body, and her armour had been mangled almost beyond repair.
- Most bizarrely, he even mangles an extremely well-known line of Orwell's, his tirade about ‘every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer’ and so on.
- She was mangling Whitney Houston songs like no one had ever done before.
- Two crushed and mangled pick-up trucks have been flipped on their side.
- How do you get one of these things off without mangling my daughter's clothes?
- This blast was so powerful, it left storefronts mangled, blew out car windows and sent metal and glass flying in all directions.
- The smooth shell of the car was mangled beyond recognition.
- Soldiers and members of the National Guard are protecting much of the scorched and mangled wreckage.
- When I got close enough to see, the front half of the car was literally mangled.
- For decades now, our pop stars have been sending us political messages that are less mixed than mangled beyond reason.
- At least we can say that it is not the only group creatively mangling the language.
- He would tear his hair as they mangled the beautiful old German words.
Synonyms mutilate, maim, disfigure, damage, injure, crush, crumple hack, cut about, lacerate, tear apart, rend, chop (up), butcher, deform, maul, wreck - 1.1 Ruin or spoil (a text, piece of music, etc.)
he was mangling Bach on the piano 〈喻〉他在钢琴上胡乱地弹奏巴赫的曲子。 Example sentencesExamples - You get a message back saying ‘mail undeliverable’ or some suitably mangled bit of language meaning the same.
- We apologise unreservedly to Henry for mangling his words.
- This got me thinking about how some mangled enunciation has become par for the course in pop music, and we don't really think it's weird anymore.
- But while the validity of moulding the myths from separate classical poems is questionable, he is not the first to mangle the work of Homer in the name of cinema.
- It then goes on to mangle the line ‘will things ever be the same again?’
- Firstly, I apologise to Ira Gershwin for mangling his lyrics to create the title of this article!
- It is easier to understand mangled grammar than new vocabulary, because people mangle grammar constantly.
- It is a short text, probably representing a mangled version of what Marlowe wrote.
- The Plot deftly navigate through jazz, punk, and metal with pinpoint precision, willfully mangling their songs while still retaining a sense of structure.
- As Joe points out, I somehow managed to totally mangle this question.
- It tames a director's vision, ruins his or her movie, and mangles its artist's intent.
- He fitted in study of the museum's European portrait miniatures and this would later materialise as a catalogue, handsome but somewhat mangled by the American editing.
- Now I slur my words and mangle the language with the best of them, though people close to me do still tease me for my tendency towards pomposity.
- And when institutions routinely mangle language is it any wonder that individuals will too?
- The tone of the site is bang on target, from the over-excited use of exclamation marks to the mangled syntax and personal trivia.
- Actually, I don't think they physically cooked anything, they just stood around and watched their recipes being mangled by the in-house excuse for a chef.
- Her production, based on a rather mangled text, was taken by the audience as a farce.
- Will it be so difficult to spell or to pronounce that your child will be condemned to a lifetime of seeing and hearing people mangle his or her name and having to endlessly correct them?
- I have no problem with people mangling the language, making mistakes.
- His pieces have, however, frequently been mangled by editors.
Synonyms spoil, ruin, mar, mutilate, bungle, mess up, make a mess of, wreck informal murder, make a hash of, muck up, screw up, butcher
OriginLate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French mahangler, perhaps a frequentative of mahaignier 'maim'. Rhymesangle, bangle, bespangle, dangle, entangle, fandangle, jangle, mangel, spangle, strangle, tangle, wangle, wide-angle, wrangle noun ˈmaŋɡ(ə)lˈmæŋɡəl British 1A machine having two or more rollers turned by a handle, between which wet laundry is squeezed to remove excess moisture. 〈主英〉衣物压干机 Example sentencesExamples - There was a shared washroom that contained mangles, and once a week Kilroy-Silk went to the local baths.
- Mum used a mangle and a washboard so when the washing machine arrived it was a big moment.
- Stories of men given to hitting their women weren't unheard of in my family, but I associated them with my grandparents' generation, like chenille tablecloths or mangles or the music hall itself.
- The first continuous process involved squeezing a ribbon of molten glass through two hot rollers, similar to an old mangle.
- ‘If I wasn't at school, I had to turn the handle on the mangle while mum put the sheets through,’ Peter recalls.
- Mr Gibson's mum would get up at five in the morning to do the washing in the communal washhouse complete with mangles.
- On washing day it was my job to wring out the washing by turning the mangle for her.
- The garden also contains a vintage mechanical washing machine as well as antique ploughs, mangles and bacon slicers.
- She does not have a TV and her washing machine is an archaic model involving rubber hoses and a handle-operated mangle.
- One has to be a certain age to remember the soggy, steamy awfulness that was the drudgery of washdays when it involved galvanised tubs, poss-sticks and mangles.
- And, of course, I got to remembering Monday wash days at home, clouds of steam billowing, the washboard clattering and the mangle creaking, lines of gleaming white washing hanging out to dry.
- We used to have twin tubs and mangles, but we don't any more.
- 1.1US A large machine for ironing sheets or other fabrics, usually when they are damp, using heated rollers.
〈美〉布料熨平机 Example sentencesExamples - The sheets were not ironed but were put through a mangle - like a large wringer - which flattened them.
- At seven in the evening they broke off to run the hotel linen through the mangle.
verb ˈmaŋɡ(ə)lˈmæŋɡəl [with object]Press or squeeze with a mangle. 压干；轧平 the hard household labour often involved pounding clothes in a dolly tub and mangling them with a hand wringer
OriginLate 17th century: from Dutch mangel, from mangelen 'to mangle', from medieval Latin mango, manga, from Greek manganon 'axis, engine of war'. verbˈmæŋɡəlˈmaNGɡəl [with object]Severely mutilate, disfigure, or damage by cutting, tearing, or crushing. （因切割、撕扯、挤压等而）严重损毁；使变形；破坏 the car was mangled almost beyond recognition 这辆轿车被毁得面目全非。 figurative he was mangling Bach on the piano 〈喻〉他在钢琴上胡乱地弹奏巴赫的曲子。 Example sentencesExamples - The smooth shell of the car was mangled beyond recognition.
- Soldiers and members of the National Guard are protecting much of the scorched and mangled wreckage.
- Knowingly or not, these critics are mangling the facts to prove a debatable point and in the process damaging their own cause.
- The aircraft was heavily damaged with the prop destroyed and one wing mangled.
- How do you get one of these things off without mangling my daughter's clothes?
- She quickly set to work, chopping vegetables into little mangled bits and depositing the mess into a huge steel pot.
- The dais was in the form of a human whose skeleton was mangled beyond recognition.
- She was mangling Whitney Houston songs like no one had ever done before.
- Most bizarrely, he even mangles an extremely well-known line of Orwell's, his tirade about ‘every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer’ and so on.
- I don't think she liked the way I was mangling her language.
- Kristy had been badly bruised, had cuts all over her body, and her armour had been mangled almost beyond repair.
- When I got close enough to see, the front half of the car was literally mangled.
- Television footage showed a scene of massive devastation, including badly mangled cars and injured people being carried away.
- For decades now, our pop stars have been sending us political messages that are less mixed than mangled beyond reason.
- At least we can say that it is not the only group creatively mangling the language.
- One of the top offenders, according to critics, is the former German captain, who regularly mangles his sentences.
- Two crushed and mangled pick-up trucks have been flipped on their side.
- He would tear his hair as they mangled the beautiful old German words.
- Or, the lift wreckage would become mangled inside the tubing, preventing any further use of that tube.
- This blast was so powerful, it left storefronts mangled, blew out car windows and sent metal and glass flying in all directions.
Synonyms mutilate, maim, disfigure, damage, injure, crush, crumple
OriginLate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French mahangler, perhaps a frequentative of mahaignier ‘maim’. nounˈmæŋɡəlˈmaNGɡəl US 1A large machine for ironing sheets or other fabrics, usually when they are damp, using heated rollers. 〈美〉布料熨平机 Example sentencesExamples - The sheets were not ironed but were put through a mangle - like a large wringer - which flattened them.
- At seven in the evening they broke off to run the hotel linen through the mangle.
- 1.1British A machine having two or more cylinders turned by a handle, between which wet laundry is squeezed (to remove excess moisture) and pressed.
〈主英〉衣物压干机 Example sentencesExamples - Mr Gibson's mum would get up at five in the morning to do the washing in the communal washhouse complete with mangles.
- On washing day it was my job to wring out the washing by turning the mangle for her.
- Mum used a mangle and a washboard so when the washing machine arrived it was a big moment.
- The first continuous process involved squeezing a ribbon of molten glass through two hot rollers, similar to an old mangle.
- We used to have twin tubs and mangles, but we don't any more.
- One has to be a certain age to remember the soggy, steamy awfulness that was the drudgery of washdays when it involved galvanised tubs, poss-sticks and mangles.
- She does not have a TV and her washing machine is an archaic model involving rubber hoses and a handle-operated mangle.
- There was a shared washroom that contained mangles, and once a week Kilroy-Silk went to the local baths.
- And, of course, I got to remembering Monday wash days at home, clouds of steam billowing, the washboard clattering and the mangle creaking, lines of gleaming white washing hanging out to dry.
- ‘If I wasn't at school, I had to turn the handle on the mangle while mum put the sheets through,’ Peter recalls.
- The garden also contains a vintage mechanical washing machine as well as antique ploughs, mangles and bacon slicers.
- Stories of men given to hitting their women weren't unheard of in my family, but I associated them with my grandparents' generation, like chenille tablecloths or mangles or the music hall itself.
verbˈmæŋɡəlˈmaNGɡəl [with object]Press or squeeze with a mangle. 压干；轧平 the hard household labor often involved pounding clothes in a dolly tub and mangling them with a hand wringer
OriginLate 17th century: from Dutch mangel, from mangelen ‘to mangle’, from medieval Latin mango, manga, from Greek manganon ‘axis, engine of war’. |