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单词 mangle
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mangle
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When you mangle something, you completely destroy it, by ripping, cutting, crushing, or otherwise mauling it into pieces.
You shouldn't leave your new puppy alone in a room with your favorite shoes because he might mangle them with his sharp puppy teeth. A bad accident will mangle your bicycle, bending it beyond repair, and a paper shredder mangles a document by slicing it up. You can also use the word mangle to describe what happens when your uncle's terrible bluegrass band performs a cover of your favorite classic rock song — they mangle it.
WORD FAMILY
mangle: mangled, mangler, mangles, mangling+/mangler: manglers
USAGE EXAMPLES
“During all of our work-up, shooting targets, throwing grenades, doing all that, you never once saw kids mangled,” he told me.
New York Times(Dec 28, 2016)
But his book does provide some useful insights into the dangers of propaganda — and its reliance upon mangled facts; false claims; and reductive, Manichaean storytelling.
New York Times(Dec 26, 2016)
In the rubble, remnants of lives still lay: a TV set, a mangled car, a child-size dress.
Washington Post(Dec 18, 2016)
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1v destroy or injure severely
Syn|Hyper
cut up, mutilate
damage
inflict damage upon
2v injure badly by beating
Syn|Hyper
maul
blemish, deface, disfigure
mar or spoil the appearance of
3v alter so as to make unrecognizable
Syn|Hyper
murder, mutilate
distort, falsify, garble, warp
make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
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1n clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
Hyper
clothes drier, clothes dryer
a dryer that dries clothes wet from washing
2v press with a mangle
mangle the sheets
Hyper
iron, iron out, press
press and smooth with a heated iron
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