• IPA: /ˈmæŋ.ɡəl/

mangle (mangles, present participle mangling; past and past participle mangled)

1. (transitive) To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 6”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

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

• French: mutiler
• German: verstümmeln, zerfleischen, (figuratively) durch die Mangel drehen, kalandrieren, zurichten
• Italian: maciullare, dilaniare
• Portuguese: mutilar, desfigurar, mudar
• Russian: искажа́ть

mangle (plural mangles)

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

• French: essoreuse
• German: Mangel, Wäschemangel, Rollmangel
• Italian: mangano
• Russian: ска́лка

mangle

1. (transitive, archaic) To wring laundry.

• French: essorer
• German: mangeln, wringen, auswringen
• Russian: выжима́ть

mangle (plural mangles)

1. mangrove (tree)

1. Surname