mangle
钳制,绞杀,掐死,掐断
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man·gled, man·gling.
- : to injure severely, disfigure, or mutilate by cutting, slashing, or crushing: The coat sleeve was mangled in the gears of the machine.
- : to spoil; ruin; mar badly: to mangle a text by careless typesetting.
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He bumped into someone, a civilian secretary, and together they moved ahead until they saw some light and heard voices and made their way through a mangled doorway to Corridor 5 and toward safety.
You can't perform a nice, clean Windows 11 installation yet, sadly—you'll need to use Windows Update to mangle an existing Windows 10 installation instead.
Saying a word in a different tone can distort or utterly mangle a line.
Plus, a slip of the electric knife can really mangle your roast.
They had her give the weather update, and even let her mangle the word “amok.”
Now, here seemed simple panic: and like a pack of dogs which rush to mangle a mongrel, they were at him pell-mell.
They are then damped on a water mangle, and beamed on to the heavy iron bowl of the beetling machine.
In a laundry visited when the boss was out, we conferred with the engineer about one particularly bad mangle.
The reason for the low wages listed for mangle work seems to lie only in nationality.
From the folders the sheets are carried away to a mangle, where they are folded over again by young girls.