Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - mangle
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(mangles, mangling, mangled) 1. If a physical object is mangled, it is crushed or twisted very forcefully, so that it is difficult to see what its original shape was. His body was crushed and mangled beyond recognition. ...the mangled wreckage. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed, V-ed 2. If you say that someone mangles words or information, you are criticizing them for not speaking or writing clearly or correctly. They don’t know what they’re talking about and mangle scientific information. VERB: V n c darkgreen]disapproval ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. transitive verb (~d; mangling) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French ~r, mahangler, perhaps from mahaigner to maim — more at mayhem Date: 15th century 1. to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing people…~d by sharks — V. G. Heiser 2. to spoil, injure, or make incoherent especially through ineptitude a story ~d beyond recognition Synonyms: see maim • ~r noun II. noun Etymology: Dutch mangel, from German, from Middle High German, diminutive of mange mangonel, ~, from Latin manganum Date: 1696 a machine for ironing laundry by passing it between heated rollers III. transitive verb (~d; mangling) Date: circa 1775 to press or smooth (as damp linen) with a ~ • ~r noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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1. n. & v. esp. Brit. hist. --n. a machine having two or more cylinders usu. turned by a handle, between which wet clothes etc. are squeezed and pressed. --v.tr. press (clothes etc.) in a mangle. Etymology: Du. mangel(stok) f. mangelen to mangle, ult. f. Gk magganon + stok staff, STOCK 2. v.tr. 1 hack, cut about, or mutilate by blows etc. 2 spoil (a quotation, text, etc.) by misquoting, mispronouncing, etc. 3 cut roughly so as to disfigure. Derivatives mangler n. Etymology: AF ma(ha)ngler, app. frequent. of mahaignier MAIM ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) роликоправильная машина (для правки листового металла) 2) мн. ч. валки для правки (листового металла) 3) каландр каландровать - cold mangle - hot mangle ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
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I 1. noun 1) каток (для белья) 2) tech. каландр 2. v. катать (белье) II v. 1) рубить, кромсать 2) калечить (тж. mangle up); I could hardly recognize the body of the driver, as it had been badly mangled up in the accident 3) искажать, портить (цитату, текст и т.п.) ...Англо-русский словарь
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- 14c., from Anglo-Fr. mangler, freq. of O.Fr. mangoner "cut to pieces," of uncertain origin, perhaps connected with O.Fr. mahaignier "to maim." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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