Thesaurus / mangle
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He bumped into someone, a civilian secretary, and together they moved ahead until they saw some light and heard voices and made their way through a mangled doorway to Corridor 5 and toward safety.
SEPT. 11, 2001: AN ORDINARY WORK DAY, THEN SURREAL SCENES OF DREAD AND DEATHDAVID MARANISSSEPTEMBER 10, 2021WASHINGTON POSTYou can't perform a nice, clean Windows 11 installation yet, sadly—you'll need to use Windows Update to mangle an existing Windows 10 installation instead.
THE WINDOWS 11 INSIDER BUILD IS SURPRISINGLY UNPOLISHED AND UNFINISHEDJIM SALTERJULY 8, 2021ARS TECHNICANow, here seemed simple panic: and like a pack of dogs which rush to mangle a mongrel, they were at him pell-mell.
THE LORD OF THE SEAM. P. SHIELThey are then damped on a water mangle, and beamed on to the heavy iron bowl of the beetling machine.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 10, SLICE 3VARIOUSIn a laundry visited when the boss was out, we conferred with the engineer about one particularly bad mangle.
MAKING BOTH ENDS MEETSUE AINSLIE CLARK AND EDITH WYATTThe reason for the low wages listed for mangle work seems to lie only in nationality.
MAKING BOTH ENDS MEETSUE AINSLIE CLARK AND EDITH WYATTFrom the folders the sheets are carried away to a mangle, where they are folded over again by young girls.
MAKING BOTH ENDS MEETSUE AINSLIE CLARK AND EDITH WYATTWhen he caught a rabbit, he smashed it flat in sheer fury, as if he cared more to mangle than to eat.
KINGS IN EXILESIR CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTSI sympathized rather with the winds and waves, as if to toss and mangle these poor human bodies was the order of the day.
CAPE CODHENRY D. THOREAUI had thought of the great washing copper for boiling the sugar, but the mangle altogether escaped me.
OUT ON THE PAMPASG. A. HENTYWORDS RELATED TO MANGLE
- alter
- angle
- belie
- bend
- bias
- buckle
- change
- collapse
- color
- con
- contort
- crush
- curve
- deceive
- decline
- deteriorate
- deviate
- disfigure
- doctor
- fake
- fudge
- garble
- gnarl
- knot
- lie
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- mangle
- melt
- misconstrue
- misinterpret
- misrepresent
- misshape
- pervert
- phony up
- put one on
- sag
- scam
- slant
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- snow
- torture
- trump up
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- whitewash
- wind
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- misrepresenting
- misshaping
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- phony up
- putting one on
- sagging
- scamming
- slanting
- slumping
- snowing
- torturing
- trumping up
- twisting
- warping
- whitewashing
- winding
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- writhing
- blew down
- bowled over
- brought down
- cause to fell
- cleft
- cut
- cut down
- dashed
- demolished
- downed
- dropped
- flattened
- floored
- gashed
- ground
- hacked
- hewed
- knocked down
- knocked over
- lay low
- leveled
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- mowed down
- prostrated
- pulled down
- razed
- rived
- severed
- shot
- shot down
- slashed
- split
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- sundered
- threw down
- tumbled
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- cleaving
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- flooring
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- leveling
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- shooting
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- slashing
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- striking down
- sundering
- throwing down
- tumbling
- abuse
- blemish
- bruise
- cripple
- crush
- damage
- dilapidate
- discommode
- disserve
- do violence to
- dump on
- get
- hurt
- ill-treat
- impair
- incommode
- inconvenience
- louse up
- maim
- maltreat
- mangle
- mar
- mess up
- misuse
- molest
- muck up
- mutilate
- nick
- outrage
- prejudice
- put down
- ruin
- sabotage
- sap
- scathe
- shatter
- shock
- spoil
- stab
- tarnish
- total
- trample
- traumatize
- tweak
- undermine
- vandalize
- vitiate
- wing
- wound
- wreck
- wrench
- wrong
- zing
- abusing
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- discommoding
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- outraging
- prejudicing
- putting down
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- sabotaging
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- shocking
- spoiling
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- tarnishing
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- traumatizing
- tweaking
- undermining
- vandalizing
- vitiating
- winding
- winging
- wrecking
- wrenching
- wronging
- zinging
- abuses
- blemishes
- bruises
- cripples
- crushes
- damages
- dilapidates
- discommodes
- disserves
- does violence to
- dumps on
- gets
- hurts
- ill-treats
- impairs
- incommodes
- inconveniences
- louses up
- maims
- maltreats
- mangles
- mars
- mess up
- misuses
- molests
- mucks up
- mutilates
- nicks
- outrages
- prejudices
- puts down
- ruins
- sabotages
- saps
- scathes
- shatters
- shocks
- spoils
- stabs
- tarnishes
- totals
- tramples
- traumatizes
- tweaks
- undermines
- vandalizes
- vitiates
- winds
- wings
- wrecks
- wrenches
- wrongs
- zings
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