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单词 mangle
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mangle

verb
/ˈmæŋɡl/
/ˈmæŋɡl/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they mangle
/ˈmæŋɡl/
/ˈmæŋɡl/
he / she / it mangles
/ˈmæŋɡlz/
/ˈmæŋɡlz/
past simple mangled
/ˈmæŋɡld/
/ˈmæŋɡld/
past participle mangled
/ˈmæŋɡld/
/ˈmæŋɡld/
-ing form mangling
/ˈmæŋɡlɪŋ/
/ˈmæŋɡlɪŋ/
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  1. [usually passive] to tear or twist something so that it is badly damaged
    • be mangled His hand was mangled in the machine.
  2. mangle something to change something good into something bad, for example a language or a piece of music, by saying it wrongly or playing it badly synonym ruin
    • I find it strange the way he mangles the English language.
  3. Word Originverb late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French mahangler, perhaps a frequentative of mahaignier ‘maim’.

mangle

noun
/ˈmæŋɡl/
/ˈmæŋɡl/
(also wringer)
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  1. a machine with two rollers used especially in the past for pressing the water out of clothes that had been washed
    Word Originnoun late 17th cent.: from Dutch mangel, from mangelen ‘to mangle’, from medieval Latin mango, manga, from Greek manganon ‘axis, engine of war’.
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