Mangle

['mæŋg(ə)l] or ['mæŋɡl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers.

(verb.) alter so as to make unrecognizable; 'The tourists murdered the French language'.

(verb.) press with a mangle; 'mangle the sheets'.

校對:莫蒂默--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate.

(v. t.) To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or pertaining; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.

(n.) A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure.

(n.) To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.

校對:玛克辛

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Lacerate, hack, tear (in cutting).

塞西尔編輯

同義詞及反義詞：

[See MAIM_and_LACERATE]

校對:雷明顿

解釋/意思:

n. a rolling-press for smoothing linen.—v.t. to smooth with a mangle: to calender.—n. Mang′ler.

v.t. to cut and bruise: to tear in cutting: to mutilate: to take by piecemeal.—n. Mang′ler.

整理:奥蒂斯