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单词 mangling
释义

mangle

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verb (1)

man·​gle ˈmaŋ-gəl How to pronounce mangle (audio)
mangled; mangling ˈmaŋ-g(ə-)liŋ How to pronounce mangle (audio)

transitive verb

1
: to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing
people … mangled by sharks V. G. Heiser
2
: to spoil, injure, or make incoherent especially through ineptitude
a story mangled beyond recognition

mangle

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noun

: a machine for ironing laundry by passing it between heated rollers

mangle

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verb (2)

mangled; mangling ˈmaŋ-g(ə-)liŋ How to pronounce mangle (audio)

transitive verb

: to press or smooth (something, such as damp linen) with a mangle

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Besides the "mutilate" verb mangle, English has the noun mangle ("a machine for ironing laundry by passing it between heated rollers") and its related verb ("to press or smooth with a mangle"). There's no etymological relationship, however, between that pair and the mangle that means "to mutilate or bungle." The ironing-related homographs come from Dutch and ultimately from a Latin word that also gave English mangonel, the name for a military engine used to hurl missiles. The injury-related mangle comes from Anglo-French and may be a relation of the words maim and mayhem via Anglo-French mahaigner, "to maim."

Synonyms

Verb (1)

  • blow
  • bobble
  • boggle
  • bollix (up)
  • boot
  • botch
  • bugger (up)
  • bumble
  • bungle
  • butcher
  • dub
  • flub
  • fluff
  • foozle
  • foul up
  • fumble
  • goof (up)
  • louse up
  • mess (up)
  • muck up
  • muff
  • murder
  • screw up
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Word History

Etymology

Verb (1)

Middle English, from Anglo-French mangler, mahangler, perhaps from mahaigner to maim — more at mayhem

Noun

Dutch mangel, from German, from Middle High German, diminutive of mange mangonel, mangle, from Latin manganum

First Known Use

Verb (1)

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Noun

1696, in the meaning defined above

Verb (2)

circa 1775, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

mangle

verb

man·​gle ˈmaŋ-gəl How to pronounce mangle (audio)
mangled; mangling
1
: to injure badly by cutting, tearing, or crushing
2
: to spoil while making or performing
If she's nervous, she'll mangle the speech.

mangling

verb

present participle of mangle
as in fumbling
to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way you've mangled this so badly that we'll have to do it over

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • fumbling
  • blowing
  • butchering
  • dubbing
  • murdering
  • bungling
  • botching
  • ruining
  • destroying
  • muffing
  • flubbing
  • booting
  • fluffing
  • spoiling
  • damaging
  • boggling
  • marring
  • wrecking
  • bobbling
  • bumbling
  • mutilating
  • injuring
  • mucking up
  • screwing up
  • impairing
  • muddling
  • fouling up
  • blundering
  • foozling
  • hurting
  • lousing up
  • harming
  • blighting
  • bollixing (up)
  • blemishing
  • buggering (up)
  • flawing
  • mishandling
  • piffling
  • goofing (up)
  • vitiating
  • mismanaging
  • messing (up)
  • gumming (up)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • improving
  • reforming
  • refining
  • rectifying
  • enhancing
  • helping
  • remedying
  • repairing
  • ameliorating
  • fixing
  • patching
  • doctoring
  • revamping
  • meliorating
  • reconditioning
  • renovating
  • bettering
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