mangle

UK /ˈmæŋ.ɡ(ə)l/ US /ˈmæŋ.ɡ(ə)l/
noun 5verb 3name 1

Definitions

verb

1

To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc.

mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail

c. 1703-20, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage when they are disposed to mangle a play or a novel

2

To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.

noun

1

A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.

2

The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.

There was a bright-red plastic baby-bath, a car tyre, a rusty mangle, and something that looked like a primitive version of a washing machine.

verb

1

To wring laundry.

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