mangle

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

man·gle [mangle mangles mangled mangling] verb, noun BrE [ˈmæŋɡl] NAmE [ˈmæŋɡl]
verb usually passive
1. ~ sth to crush or twist sth so that it is badly damaged
•His hand was mangled in the machine.
2. ~ sth to spoil sth, for example a poem or a piece of music, by saying it wrongly or playing it badly
Syn: ↑ruin
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
n. late 17th cent. Dutch mangel mangelen ‘to mangle’ medieval Latin mango manga Greek manganon ‘axis, engine of war’ v. late Middle English Anglo-Norman French mahangler mahaignier ‘maim’
Derived Word: ↑mangled
 
noun (also wring·er)
a machine with two ↑rollers (¹) used especially in the past for squeezing the water out of clothes that had been washed

Word Origin:
n. late 17th cent. Dutch mangel mangelen ‘to mangle’ medieval Latin mango manga Greek manganon ‘axis, engine of war’ v. late Middle English Anglo-Norman French mahangler mahaignier ‘maim’
 
See also: ↑wringer

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