Mangle vs. Wringer

Mangleverb

(transitive) To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.

Mangleverb

To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.

Mangleverb

To wring laundry.

Manglenoun

A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.

Manglenoun

The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.

Manglenoun

mangrove (tree)

Mangleverb

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.

Mangleverb

To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or performing; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.

Mangleverb

To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.

Manglenoun

A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure, often with heated rollers.

Manglenoun

clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers

Mangleverb

press with a mangle;

Mangleverb

injure badly by beating

Mangleverb

alter so as to make unrecognizable;

Mangleverb

destroy or injure severely;

Wringernoun

One who wrings.

Wringernoun

A device for drying laundry consisting of two rollers between which the wet laundry is squeezed (or wrung); a mangle.

Wringernoun

(figurative) Something that causes pain, hardship, or exertion; an ordeal.

Wringernoun

One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.

Wringernoun

A machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly from clothes after they have been washed.

Wringernoun

a clothes dryer consisting of two roles between which the wet clothes are squeezed