Difference between Mangle and Mutilate

What is the difference between Mangle and Mutilate?

Mangle as a verb is to change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc. while Mutilate as a verb is to physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.

Mangle

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc. To wring laundry.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry. The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.

Mutilate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.To destroy beyond recognition.To render imperfect.

We hope you now know whether to use Mangle or Mutilate in your sentence.

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