- to injure severely, disfigure, or mutilate by cutting, slashing, or crushing: The coat sleeve was mangled in the gears of the machine.
- to spoil or ruin; mar badly: The story was mangled by a clumsy translation.
- a machine for smoothing or pressing clothes, household linen, etc., by means of heated rollers.
- to smooth or press with a mangle.
- to squeeze (metal plates) between rollers.
- to mutilate, disfigure, or destroy by cutting, crushing, or tearing
- to ruin, spoil, or mar
- a machine for pressing or drying wet textiles, clothes, etc, consisting of two heavy rollers between which the cloth is passed
- to press or dry in a mangle
