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mangle

/mang-guhl/US // ˈmæŋ gəl //UK // (ˈmæŋɡəl) //

钳制,绞杀,掐死,掐断

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbmutilate, deform
Forms: mangled

Examples

  • 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.