All mangle synonyms
manΒ·gle
M m verb mangle
- disfigure β to mar the appearance or beauty of; deform; deface: Our old towns are increasingly disfigured by tasteless new buildings.
- wreck β any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
- lacerate β to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
- bruise β A bruise is an injury which appears as a purple mark on your body, although the skin is not broken.
- distort β to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- impair β to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.
- contort β If someone's face or body contorts or is contorted, it moves into an unnatural and unattractive shape or position.
- hack β to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- maim β to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple: The explosion maimed him for life.
- maul β a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges.
- deface β If someone defaces something such as a wall or a notice, they spoil it by writing or drawing things on it.
- rend β to separate into parts with force or violence: The storm rent the ship to pieces.
- slay β to draw (warp ends) through the heddle eyes of the harness or through the dents of the reed in accordance with a given plan for weaving a fabric.
- slit β to cut apart or open along a line; make a long cut, fissure, or opening in.
- cut β If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
- injure β to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
- ruin β ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- wound β the act of winding.
- damage β To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
- butcher β A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies.
- crush β To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
- slash β to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.
- carve β If you carve an object, you make it by cutting it out of a substance such as wood or stone. If you carve something such as wood or stone into an object, you make the object by cutting it out.
- destroy β To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- mar β to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
- hash β hashish.
- separate β to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
- flay β to strip off the skin or outer covering of.
- break β When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
- slice β a thin, flat piece cut from something: a slice of bread.
- batter β If someone is battered, they are regularly hit and badly hurt by a member of their family or by their partner.
- spoil β to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
- tear β the act of tearing.
- mash β to flirt with; court the affections of.
- smash β to break to pieces with violence and often with a crashing sound, as by striking, letting fall, or dashing against something; shatter: He smashed the vase against the wall.
- twist β to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
- deform β If something deforms a person's body or something else, it causes it to have an unnatural shape. In technical English, you can also say that the second thing deforms.
- mutilate β to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
noun mangle
- clean out β If you clean out something such as a cupboard, room, or container, you take everything out of it and clean the inside of it thoroughly.
- hackle β one of the long, slender feathers on the neck or saddle of certain birds, as the domestic rooster, much used in making artificial flies for anglers.
- dilapidate β to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
- use up β to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- lay waste β to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- wrecker β a person or thing that wrecks.
- ruination β the act or state of ruining or the state of being ruined.