Definition of "mangle" []

• To mutilate or disfigure by battering, hacking, cutting, or tearing. See Synonyms at batter1. (verb-transitive)
• To ruin or spoil through ineptitude or ignorance: mangle a speech. (verb-transitive)
• A machine for pressing fabrics by means of heated rollers. (noun)
• Chiefly British A clothes wringer. (noun)
• To press with a mangle. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Rhizopora mangle is the most frequently occurring mangrove species and is found closest to the coast at heights of up to 25 m."
• "In the mangroves fringing the coastal lagoons Rhizophora mangle is characteristic."
• "Slower presentations can be the ticket for catching early-season northerns that aren't in mangle mode."