mangle
verb (used with object)
to injure severely, disfigure, or mutilate by cutting, slashing, or crushing.
mangler
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a word derived from
mangle.
Example Sentences
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Norm Crosby, 93, the deadpan mangler of the English language who thrived in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s as a television, nightclub and casino comedian, died Nov. 7 of heart failure in Los Angeles.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2020
Jimmy Durante is, for example, no ordinary word mangler.
From Time Magazine Archive
Americans who remember Ike at all tend to recall a do-little President or a mangler of sentences at press conferences.
From Time Magazine Archive
When nearly dry, mangle it; if you have not a mangler, wrap it up in a clean white cloth and press it under a heavy weight till perfectly dry.
Here, too, were many of the brick-fronted barracks of the poor; a plaster cow, perhaps, serving as ensign to a dairy, or a ticket announcing the business of the mangler.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
