bemangle
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See also: bemängle
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]bemangle (third-person singular simple present bemangles, present participle bemangling, simple past and past participle bemangled)
- (transitive) To mangle; to tear asunder.
- 1648, Joseph Beaumont, “(please specify the canto number)”, in Psyche: Or Loves Mysterie, […], London: […] John Dawson for George Boddington, […], →OCLC:
- To his bemangled shape of horror
References
[edit]“bemangle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.