Synonyms of the word mangle


MANGLEBLEMISH - DAMAGE - DEFACE - DISFIGURE - DISTORT - FALSIFY - GARBLE - IRON - MAUL - MURDER - MUTILATE - PRESS - WARP

mangle

  • v. (transitive) To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To wring laundry.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier…
  • n. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
  • n. The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
  • n. mangrove (tree).

blemish

  • n. A small flaw which spoils the appearance of something, a stain, a spot.
  • n. A moral defect; a character flaw.
  • v. To spoil the appearance of.
  • v. To tarnish (reputation, character, etc.); to defame.

damage

  • n. Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
  • n. (slang) Cost or expense.
  • v. (transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.

deface

  • v. To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
  • v. To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value.
  • v. (heraldry, flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it.

disfigure

  • v. Change the appearance of something/someone to the negative.

distort

  • v. (transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
  • v. (intransitive, ergative) To become misshapen.
  • v. (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of.
  • adj. (obsolete) distorted; misshapen.

falsify

  • v. (transitive) To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.
  • v. (transitive) To misrepresent.
  • v. (transitive) To prove to be false.
  • v. (transitive) To counterfeit; to forge.
  • v. (transitive, finance) To show, in accounting, (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To baffle or escape.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.

garble

  • v. (obsolete) To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts,…
  • v. To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert.
  • v. To make false by mutilation or addition.
  • n. Confused or unintelligible speech.
  • n. (obsolete) Refuse; rubbish.
  • n. (obsolete) Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings.

iron

  • n. (uncountable) A common, inexpensive metal, often black in color, that rusts, is attracted by magnets,…
  • n. (uncountable, physics, chemistry, metallurgy) A metallic chemical element having atomic number 26 and…
  • n. (uncountable, countable, metallurgy) Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.
  • n. (countable) A tool or appliance made of metal, which is heated and then used to transfer heat to something…
  • n. (usually plural, irons) Shackles.
  • n. (slang) A handgun.
  • n. (uncountable) A dark shade of the colour/color silver.
  • n. (Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from iron hoof, rhyming with poof; countable, offensive) A male homosexual.
  • n. (golf) A golf club used for middle-distance shots.
  • n. (uncountable) Great strength or power.
  • adj. (not comparable) Made of the metal iron.
  • adj. (figuratively) Strong (as of will), inflexible.
  • v. (transitive) To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish or arm with iron.

maul

  • n. A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into it, or in combat.
  • n. (rugby) A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more…
  • v. To handle someone or something in a rough way.
  • v. To savage; to cause serious physical wounds (usually used of an animal).
  • v. (figuratively) To criticise harshly.

murder

  • n. (countable) An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.
  • n. (uncountable) The crime of deliberate killing of another human.
  • n. (uncountable, law, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The commission of an act which abets…
  • n. (uncountable, used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.
  • n. (countable, collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
  • v. To deliberately kill (a person or persons).
  • v. (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial) To defeat decisively.
  • v. To botch or mangle.
  • v. (figuratively, colloquial) To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
  • v. (figuratively, colloquial, Britain) to devour, ravish.

mutilate

  • v. To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such…
  • v. To destroy beyond recognition.
  • v. (figuratively) To render imperfect or defective.
  • adj. (obsolete) Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
  • adj. (zoology) Having fin-like appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean does.

press

  • n. (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
  • n. (countable) A printing machine.
  • n. (uncountable) A collective term for the print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
  • n. (countable) A publisher.
  • n. (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
  • n. (countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the…
  • n. (countable, wagering) An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager…
  • n. (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
  • n. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
  • n. (obsolete) A crowd.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight.
  • v. (transitive) to compress, squeeze.
  • v. (transitive) to clasp, hold in an embrace; to hug.
  • v. (transitive) to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
  • v. (transitive, sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding,…
  • v. (transitive) to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) to weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
  • v. (transitive) to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel.
  • v. To try to force (something upon someone); to urge or inculcate.
  • v. (transitive) to hasten, urge onward.
  • v. (transitive) to urge, beseech, entreat.
  • v. (transitive) to lay stress upon, emphasize.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) to throng, crowd.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) to print.
  • v. To force into service, particularly into naval service.

warp

  • n. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally.
  • n. (countable) A distortion.
  • n. (weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
  • n. (figuratively) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
  • n. (nautical) A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for…
  • n. A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such…
  • n. A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
  • n. The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced…
  • n. (obsolete outside dialects) A throw or cast, as of fish (in which case it is used as a unit of measure:…
  • v. To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, rare, obsolete, figuratively) To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme).
  • v. (transitive, rare, obsolete, poetic) To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing).
  • v. To move.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete outside dialects, of an animal) To bring forth (young) prematurely.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, agriculture) To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or…
  • v. (transitive, very rare, obsolete) To throw.

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