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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: mangling (0.00959 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to mangling.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: mangle
mangle
n : clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it
between two heavy heated rollers
mangle
v 1: press with a mangle;
“mangle the sheets”
2: injure badly by beating [syn:
maul]
3: alter so as to make unrecognizable;
“The tourists murdered
the French language” [syn:
mutilate,
murder]
4: destroy or injure severely;
“The madman mutilates art work”
[syn:
mutilate,
cut up]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Mangling
Mangle
\Man"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Mangled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Mangling.] [A frequentative fr. OE. manken to main, AS.
mancian, in bemancian to mutilate, fr. L. mancus maimed;
perh. akin to G. mangeln to be wanting.]
1. To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a
ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in
cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to
mutilate.
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Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.
--Milton.
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2. To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or performing;
as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.
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To mangle a play or a novel. --Swift.
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