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mangle

noun verb

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

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Word Facts

Word length
6
Starts with
M
Ends with
E
Contains
AN
Scrabble score
9
CEFR level
C2

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noun

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

verb

  1. Damage or injure severely

    “The madman mutilates art work”

verb

  1. Alter so as to make unrecognizable

    “The tourists murdered the French language”

verb

  1. Injure badly by beating

verb

  1. Press with a mangle

    “Mangle the sheets”

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Example Sentences

The madman mutilates art work
The tourists murdered the French language
Mangle the sheets

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