mangle

Meaning

Verb

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

Noun

A mangrove (tree).

Synonyms

mutilate

ruin

spoil

tear

murder

maim

lacerate

destroy

wringer

hew

wring

maul

hack

rolling press

calender

chop

chop down

chop up

contort

crush

cut up

injure

mince

slash

sprain

tatter

torn

twist

warp

wrench

🔧

wrest

wrick

iron

deform

lack

liquidizer

lop

damage

manhandle

mar

mash

cut

blast

corrupt

compressor

pollute

press

rend

rip

roller

chaser

saw

🪚

scourge

shorten

shred

blight

spinner

bucker

blemish

squeeze

squeezer

squelch

strip

extracting machine

break

tear apart

hack down

truncate

louse up

spin-dry

wound

discerp

dish

dismember

distord

distort

garble

disfigure

hackle

haggle

hash

#️⃣

deprive

plate mill

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmæŋ.ɡəl/

Etymology

From Middle English mangelen, from Anglo-Norman mangler, mahangler, frequentative of either Old French mangonner (“to cut to pieces”) or mahaigner (“to mutilate”), of Germanic origin, for which see mayhem.
Alternate etymology derives mangle from Middle English *mankelen, a frequentative form of manken (“to mutilate”), from Old English mancian, bemancian (“to maim”). More at mank.