1. Clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers

1. Press with a mangle
   "mangle the sheets" 
2. Injure badly by beating
   - maul 
3. Alter so as to make unrecognizable
   - mutilate, murder 
4. Destroy or injure severely
   - mutilate, cut up

Derived forms: mangling, mangled, mangles

See also: mangler

Type of: blemish, clothes drier, clothes dryer, damage, deface, disfigure, distort, falsify, garble, iron, iron out, press, warp

Encyclopedia: Mangle

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• false gromwell
• false hair
• false heather
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• false leg
• false lily of the valley
• false lupine
• false mallow
• false mildew
• false mistletoe
• false miterwort