mangle

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
• Hypernyms:
clothes dryer, clothes drier

II - verb

1. press with a mangle
- mangle the sheets
• Hypernyms:
iron, iron out, press
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- They mangle the cape
2. injure badly by beating
• Syn:
maul
• Derivationally related forms:
mangler, mauler (for: maul)
• Hypernyms:
deface, disfigure, blemish
• Entailment:
mutilate, mar, injure, wound
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
3. alter so as to make unrecognizable
- The tourists murdered the French language
• Syn:
mutilate, murder
• Hypernyms:
falsify, distort, garble, warp
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
4. destroy or injure severely
- The madman mutilates art work
• Syn:
mutilate, cut up
• Derivationally related forms:
mangler, mutilation (for: mutilate), mutilator (for: mutilate)
• Hypernyms:
damage
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  mutilate, cut up, murder, maul