See Also: mangle(medicine)
mangle(1)(dictionary)
mangle(2)(dictionary)
mangle(3)(dictionary)
mangle(4)(dictionary)
mangle 1, verb(dictionary)
mangle 2, noun(dictionary)

kalpa (iou) and mangle(3) (iou)


kalpa (iou)



kalpa noun. L18.
[Sanskrit.]
In Indian cosmology: an aeon, a great age of the world, a cycle of yugas; spec. in Hinduism, a period of 4,320 million years.

mangle(3) (iou)



mangle verb1 trans. LME.
[Anglo-Norman mangler (cf. medieval Latin mangulare) prob. frequentative of mahaignier MAIM verb: see -LE3.]
Hack, cut, lacerate, or mutilate by repeated blows; cut or hack roughly so as to damage and disfigure; reduce to a more or less unrecognizable condition; spoil (esp. a text) by gross blundering or falsification; make (words) almost unrecognizable by mispronunciation.
T. Capote On his left hand..what remained of a finger once mangled by a piece of farm machinery. A. Carter She fell beneath..a brewer's dray and was mangled to pulp. G. Naylor She threw it on the floor and tried to mangle the pictures with her heels. Julian Gloag It was torture to listen to her mangling the language.
mangler noun1 M16.