mangles

The word “mangles” has 2 syllables: man-gles

It's pronounced as /ˈmæŋɡəlz/


What is synonym and antonym for mangles?

In the thesaurus, “mangles” has 39 synonyms and 17 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for mangles along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for mangles

  • blemishes
  • blights
  • blows
  • blunders
  • bobbles
  • boggles
  • boots
  • botches
  • bumbles
  • bungles
  • butchers
  • damages
  • destroys
  • dubs
  • flaws
  • flubs
  • fluffs
  • foozles
  • fouls up
  • fumbles
  • harms
  • hurts
  • impairs
  • injures
  • louses up
  • mars
  • mishandles
  • mismanages
  • mucks up
  • muddles
  • muffs
  • murders
  • mutilates
  • piffles
  • ruins
  • screws up
  • spoils
  • vitiates
  • wrecks

Antonyms for mangles

  • ameliorates
  • betters
  • doctors
  • enhances
  • fixes
  • helps
  • improves
  • meliorates
  • patches
  • reconditions
  • rectifies
  • refines
  • reforms
  • remedies
  • renovates
  • repairs
  • revamps

Meanings of mangles

  • noun
    1. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
    2. The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
    3. Mangrove (tree).

Example Sentences

  • The machine mangles the fabric as part of the cleaning process.
  • She mangles the words every time she tries to speak French.
  • The chef accidentally mangles the vegetables when chopping them too quickly.
  • The storm mangles the trees, leaving them twisted and broken.
  • The dog mangles its toys, leaving them in pieces on the floor.

On this page you'll find 56 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to mangles, such as: ameliorates, betters, blemishes, blights, blows, blunders, bobbles.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

damages

  • abuse
  • abuses
  • accident
  • adjustment
  • adulteration
  • adversity
  • affliction
  • afflicts
  • aggrieves
  • amends
  • annihilates
  • assessment
  • atonement
  • award
  • bane
  • bang up
  • bangs up
  • bashes
  • batter
  • batters
  • bill
  • bleach
  • blemish
  • blemishes
  • blight
  • blights
  • bloodies
  • blow
  • blows out
  • botches
  • break
  • breakage
  • breaks
  • bruise
  • bruises
  • burn
  • casualty
  • catastrophe
  • cave-in
  • charge
  • clobbers
  • compensation
  • compromises
  • contaminate
  • contamination
  • contuses
  • corrode
  • corrupt
  • corruption
  • crabs
  • crack
  • creases
  • cripple
  • cripples
  • crushes
  • cuts
  • dashes
  • debasement
  • decimates
  • deface
  • defaces
  • defile
  • demolishes
  • dents
  • depreciation
  • deprivation
  • desolates
  • destroys
  • destruction
  • deteriorates
  • deterioration
  • detriment
  • devastates
  • devastation
  • dings
  • dints
  • dirty
  • disables
  • discolor
  • disfigure
  • disfigures
  • disintegrate
  • dismantle
  • disservice
  • disturbance
  • does in
  • endamages
  • enervates
  • enfeebles
  • erodes
  • evil
  • expense
  • expiation
  • fade
  • fine
  • flaws
  • forfeit
  • forfeiture
  • gashes
  • gnaw
  • gores
  • grazes
  • hamstrings
  • hardship
  • harm
  • harms
  • hurt
  • hurts
  • illness
  • impair
  • impairment
  • impairs
  • incapacitate
  • indemnification
  • indemnity
  • infect
  • infliction
  • injure
  • injures
  • knockout
  • lacerate
  • lacerates
  • lames
  • lays up
  • maim
  • maims
  • maltreat
  • maltreats
  • mangle
  • mangles
  • mar
  • marring
  • mars
  • mischief
  • mishap
  • mulct
  • mutilate
  • mutilates
  • mutilation
  • nicks
  • outrage
  • penalty
  • pollute
  • pollution
  • pulverizes
  • punishment
  • punitive damages
  • queers
  • quittance
  • ravage
  • razes
  • recompense
  • recoupment
  • redress
  • refund
  • reimbursement
  • remuneration
  • reparation
  • reparations
  • repayment
  • requital
  • restitution
  • retaliation
  • reverse
  • rot
  • ruin
  • ruining
  • ruins
  • rust
  • satisfaction
  • scalds
  • scars
  • scathe
  • scathes
  • scorch
  • scourges
  • scours
  • scrapes
  • scratch
  • settlement
  • shatters
  • smash
  • smashes
  • solatium
  • split
  • spoil
  • spoilage
  • spoils
  • stab
  • stain
  • strains
  • stroke
  • suffering
  • tamper with
  • tarnish
  • tarnishes
  • tear
  • tears
  • tears down
  • torments
  • tortures
  • total
  • totals
  • undermine
  • undermines
  • vitiate
  • vitiates
  • washes out
  • waste
  • wastes
  • weaken
  • weakens
  • wear away
  • wipes out
  • wound
  • wounds
  • wreak havoc on
  • wreck
  • wreckage
  • wrecking
  • wrecks
  • wrong

hacksaws

  • amputates
  • anatomizes
  • bruises
  • butchers
  • carves
  • chips
  • chisels
  • chops
  • cleaves
  • crosscuts
  • cuts
  • cuts off
  • dices
  • dissects
  • gashes
  • hacks
  • haggles
  • incises
  • lacerates
  • mangles
  • minces
  • notches
  • pierces
  • rends
  • rips
  • rives
  • saws
  • scissors
  • sections
  • severs
  • shears
  • slashes
  • slices
  • slits
  • splits
  • stabs
  • tears

lacerates

  • amputates
  • anatomizes
  • bruises
  • butchers
  • carves
  • chips
  • chisels
  • chops
  • cleaves
  • crosscuts
  • cuts off
  • dices
  • dissects
  • gashes
  • gores
  • hacks
  • hacksaws
  • haggles
  • incises
  • mangles
  • minces
  • notches
  • pierces
  • rends
  • rips
  • rives
  • saws
  • scissors
  • sections
  • severs
  • shears
  • slashes
  • slices
  • slits
  • splits
  • stabs
  • tears
  • wounds

laces

  • adulterates
  • alternates
  • amalgamates
  • aromatizes
  • assails
  • assaults
  • assimilates
  • attacks
  • attenuates
  • bashes
  • bastes
  • bats
  • batters
  • beats
  • beats up on
  • befouls
  • belabors
  • belts
  • besets
  • birches
  • blackjacks
  • blends
  • bludgeons
  • boxes
  • braidings
  • braids
  • buffets
  • bungee cords
  • bungees
  • bungs up
  • busts
  • cables
  • canes
  • cheapens
  • chops
  • clobbers
  • clouts
  • clubs
  • combines
  • commingles
  • contaminates
  • cords
  • cornrows
  • corrupts
  • counterfeits
  • cowhides
  • cracks
  • cudgels
  • cuffs
  • curries
  • cuts
  • debases
  • defiles
  • degrades
  • dilutes
  • dirties
  • doctors
  • does
  • dreadlocks
  • drubs
  • embodies
  • enhances
  • enlaces
  • enriches
  • entwines
  • envenoms
  • extends
  • fakes
  • falsifies
  • fibs
  • flagellates
  • flavors
  • flogs
  • fouls
  • fudges
  • fuses
  • fustigates
  • gores
  • guys
  • halyards
  • hammers
  • hides
  • hits
  • horsewhips
  • implicates
  • incorporates
  • infects
  • inserts
  • integrates
  • interlaces
  • intermingles
  • intersperses
  • intertwines
  • intertwists
  • interweaves
  • inweaves
  • joins
  • juxtaposes
  • knocks
  • lacerates
  • lacings
  • lambastes
  • lambasts
  • lams
  • lanyards
  • lashes
  • lathers
  • lays on
  • leathers
  • licks
  • lines
  • links
  • loads
  • maims
  • mangles
  • manipulates
  • mauls
  • merges
  • mingles
  • misrepresents
  • mixes
  • moderates
  • mutilates
  • paddles
  • pastes
  • pelts
  • peppers
  • perfumes
  • pigtails
  • pistol-whips
  • plaits
  • plats
  • pleaches
  • plies
  • poisons
  • pollutes
  • pommels
  • pounds
  • pummels
  • punches
  • punches out
  • qualifies
  • queues
  • raids
  • rawhides
  • rickracks
  • ricracs
  • ropes
  • rushes
  • salts
  • sauces
  • savors
  • savours
  • scourges
  • seasons
  • slams
  • slaps
  • slates
  • slogs
  • smacks
  • smashes
  • socks
  • soils
  • sophisticates
  • spanks
  • spices
  • spikes
  • spoils
  • stays
  • storms
  • straps
  • strings
  • stripes
  • sullies
  • swats
  • swipes
  • switches
  • taints
  • tans
  • tempers
  • thins
  • thrashes
  • threads
  • threshes
  • thumps
  • thwacks
  • tromps
  • twists
  • wallops
  • waters down
  • weakens
  • weaves
  • whacks
  • whales
  • whams
  • whaps
  • whipcords
  • whips
  • whomps
  • whops
  • whups
  • wires
  • works over
  • wounds
  • wreathes
  • writhes

nails

  • abducts
  • affirms
  • apprehends
  • arrests
  • assures
  • bags
  • bangs
  • bashes
  • bats
  • batters
  • bays
  • beans
  • beats
  • belts
  • biffs
  • binds
  • blows the whistle on
  • bludgeons
  • bobs
  • bonks
  • bops
  • boxes
  • brains
  • buffets
  • bumps
  • bungs
  • bunts
  • busts
  • butts
  • canes
  • captures
  • catches
  • chops
  • claps
  • clarifies
  • clasps
  • clinches
  • clips
  • clobbers
  • clocks
  • clouts
  • clubs
  • clutches
  • collars
  • commits
  • concludes
  • confines
  • conks
  • cops
  • corners
  • corrals
  • cracks
  • creams
  • cudgels
  • cuffs
  • debunks
  • decides
  • decks
  • defines
  • demolishes
  • demonstrates
  • detains
  • determines
  • discloses
  • discredits
  • disproves
  • divulges
  • drubs
  • dumps
  • enchains
  • ends
  • enmeshes
  • ensnares
  • ensures
  • entangles
  • entraps
  • establishes
  • exposes
  • fells
  • fetters
  • finishes
  • fists
  • flails
  • flicks
  • flogs
  • floors
  • gets
  • gloms
  • gloves
  • grabs
  • grapples
  • grasps
  • grips
  • halters
  • hammers
  • handcuffs
  • hangs one on
  • hits
  • holds
  • hooks
  • illuminates
  • immeshes
  • immures
  • imprisons
  • incarcerates
  • insures
  • interns
  • jabs
  • jails
  • jostles
  • jugs
  • kicks
  • kidnaps
  • knees
  • knocks
  • knocks down
  • laces
  • lambastes
  • lambasts
  • lands
  • lashes
  • lassos
  • levels
  • licks
  • manacles
  • mangles
  • mauls
  • meshes
  • nabs
  • nets
  • nicks
  • nobbles
  • pastes
  • pelts
  • peppers
  • picks up
  • pinches
  • pokes
  • pommels
  • pounds
  • prods
  • proves
  • pulls in
  • pummels
  • punches
  • pushes
  • rabbit-punches
  • raps
  • rearrests
  • remands
  • rends
  • restrains
  • ropes
  • roughs
  • runs in
  • saps
  • scuffs
  • secures
  • seizes
  • settles
  • shackles
  • shoves
  • shows
  • shows up
  • skulls
  • slams
  • slaps
  • slashes
  • sledgehammers
  • sledges
  • slogs
  • slugs
  • smacks
  • smites
  • snags
  • snares
  • snatches
  • socks
  • spears
  • specifies
  • stabs
  • stamps
  • states
  • stipulates
  • strikes
  • strokes
  • sucker punches
  • swats
  • swipes
  • switches
  • tags
  • taps
  • tells
  • thrashes
  • thumps
  • thwacks
  • trammels
  • traps
  • uncloaks
  • uncovers
  • undresses
  • unmasks
  • unveils
  • wallops
  • whacks
  • whales
  • whips
  • wrests
  • zaps

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