mangles in English
noun
1
a large machine for ironing sheets or other fabrics, usually when they are damp, using heated rollers.
At seven in the evening they broke off to run the hotel linen through the mangle .
verb
1
severely mutilate, disfigure, or damage by cutting, tearing, or crushing.
the car was mangled almost beyond recognition
2
press or squeeze with a mangle.
verb
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1. Bowfins thrive in anything from mucky swamplands to pristine lakes and rivers, and when one mangles a perfectly good spinnerbait, cuss words fly …
2. To Alyss's horrified dismay, Carroll mangles the details almost beyond recognition; for example, he Anagrammatizes her albino tutor Bibwit Harte into the White Rabbit and turns her faithful