mangle
mengoyakkan
definition
verb
the car was mangled almost beyond recognition
severely mutilate, disfigure, or damage by cutting, tearing, or crushing.
press or squeeze with a mangle.
noun
At seven in the evening they broke off to run the hotel linen through the mangle .
a large machine for ironing sheets or other fabrics, usually when they are damp, using heated rollers.
translation of 'mangle'
verb
menyeterika,
mengoyakkan,
merobek-robek,
mengoyak-ngoyakkan,
memotong-motong,
merusak
noun
alat pemeras cucian,
alat pelicin pakaian
example
Mum used a 'mangle' and a washboard so when the washing machine arrived it was a big moment.
At seven in the evening they broke off to run the hotel linen through the 'mangle' .
‘If I wasn't at school, I had to turn the handle on the 'mangle' while mum put the sheets through,’ Peter recalls.
And, of course, I got to remembering Monday wash days at home, clouds of steam billowing, the washboard clattering and the 'mangle' creaking, lines of gleaming white washing hanging out to dry.
The first continuous process involved squeezing a ribbon of molten glass through two hot rollers, similar to an old 'mangle' .
She does not have a TV and her washing machine is an archaic model involving rubber hoses and a handle-operated 'mangle' .
The sheets were not ironed but were put through a 'mangle' - like a large wringer - which flattened them.
On washing day it was my job to wring out the washing by turning the 'mangle' for her.
There was a shared washroom that contained 'mangles' , and once a week Kilroy-Silk went to the local baths.
She was 'mangling' Whitney Houston songs like no one had ever done before.
The smooth shell of the car was 'mangled' beyond recognition.
When I got close enough to see, the front half of the car was literally 'mangled' .
The garden also contains a vintage mechanical washing machine as well as antique ploughs, 'mangles' and bacon slicers.
For each national-anthem 'mangler' , there was only one rendition standing between glory and defeat.
For decades now, our pop stars have been sending us political messages that are less mixed than 'mangled' beyond reason.
Or, the lift wreckage would become 'mangled' inside the tubing, preventing any further use of that tube.
Television footage showed a scene of massive devastation, including badly 'mangled' cars and injured people being carried away.
Stories of men given to hitting their women weren't unheard of in my family, but I associated them with my grandparents' generation, like chenille tablecloths or 'mangles' or the music hall itself.
One of the top offenders, according to critics, is the former German captain, who regularly 'mangles' his sentences.
Kristy had been badly bruised, had cuts all over her body, and her armour had been 'mangled' almost beyond repair.
Soldiers and members of the National Guard are protecting much of the scorched and 'mangled' wreckage.
The dais was in the form of a human whose skeleton was 'mangled' beyond recognition.
Knowingly or not, these critics are 'mangling' the facts to prove a debatable point and in the process damaging their own cause.
One has to be a certain age to remember the soggy, steamy awfulness that was the drudgery of washdays when it involved galvanised tubs, poss-sticks and 'mangles' .
This blast was so powerful, it left storefronts 'mangled' , blew out car windows and sent metal and glass flying in all directions.
He would tear his hair as they 'mangled' the beautiful old German words.
How do you get one of these things off without 'mangling' my daughter's clothes?
We used to have twin tubs and 'mangles' , but we don't any more.
My resolutions, therefore, are for others, and in particular for some of the many 'manglers' of the English language.
Most bizarrely, he even 'mangles' an extremely well-known line of Orwell's, his tirade about ‘every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer’ and so on.
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