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Meanings of mangling in English

Extract liquid from fabric by action of twisting or squeezing.

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Examples for "wringing"
Examples for "wringing"
1
The mother stood in the middle of the floor wringing her hands.
The Soul of a Child
2
Rapp passed the information onto Speyer, who began wringing his hands nervously.
Act of treason
3
Others have proposed wringing more utility out of the existing subway network.
Wired
4
Mrs. Gildersleeve sat down by the bedside wringing her hands in silence.
What's Bred in the Bone
5
After wringing the water from the moist linen, she approached the bed.
The notorious scoundrel
1
Dripping clean and wringing out her hair, Auri headed off through Tenners.
The Slow Regard of Silent Things
2
But it was after thoroughly wringing out the hide that the work began.
The Mammoth Hunters
3
Webb was wringing out another compress, preparing to change the dressing.
Ride Proud, Rebel!
4
After twenty years of wringing out heavily wet togas, she possessed deceptive strength.
The Silver Pigs
5
He looked up and saw Joscelyn wringing out her little handkerchief in the pannikin.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
Usage of mangling in English
1
I cringed at Slidell's mangling of the legal term, but said nothing.
Flash and Bones
2
They refuse to let mangling and murder put crimps in their spirit.
Golden Lads
3
It's an amalgamation, a mangling and a dangling and a tangling thing.
Life
4
Eleanor curled her fingers around her spectacles, mangling them out of shape.
The clouds beneath the sun
5
There is no reforming power in torture, in bruising and mangling the flesh.
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. / Interviews
6
There it is on the floor and the cat mangling it.
Three Plays: The Fiddler's House, The Land, Thomas Muskerry
7
I foot-type TEAPOT and wait for the soul-mangling symbol to disappear.
The Fuller Memorandum
8
The iron storm passed through our ranks, mangling and tearing men to pieces.
"Co. Aytch," Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment / Or, A Side ...
9
He was not going to complain about a minor mangling of his name.
The original curse: did the cubs throw the 1918 world series to ...
10
She stood up again and walked to the window, still mangling her hands.
Dexter is Delicious: A Novel
11
Ben shakes his head and presses harder, nearly mangling the piece.
Deadly little secret
12
A bullet tearing a pig's cheek, and a second bullet mangling his throat.
Mine
13
Moment by moment the bird was going through mind-mangling transformations of shape and extent.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
14
The game Pokémon Go and the face-mangling lenses in Snapchat both use augmented reality.
The Guardian
15
Tremors had sent landslides across paths down steep valley sides, mangling and stranding units.
Stonewielder
16
It is of mangling and clear-starching, of the price of coals, or of potatoes.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 / Elia and The Las...
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