mangle

1. 1.

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

   Broaderclothes dryer

Other forms of mangle

plural

mangles·

past tense

mangled·

present participle

mangling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mangle

What does mangle mean?

mangle means "press with a mangle". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mangle?

mangle has 2 syllables: man-gle. The stress falls on "man". In IPA it is /ˈmæŋɡəl/.

What is another word for mangle?

Close synonyms include maul, mutilate, murder, mutilate, cut up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mangle a common word?

mangle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.