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Mangler

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man⋅gle

1  [mang-guhl]
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–verb (used with object), -gled, -gling.
1. to injure severely, disfigure, or mutilate by cutting, slashing, or crushing: The coat sleeve was mangled in the gears of the machine.
2. to spoil; ruin; mar badly: to mangle a text by careless typesetting.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < AF mangler, perh. dissimilated var. of OF mangonner to mangle; akin to mangonel

Related forms:
mangler, noun

Synonyms:
1. See maim. 2. deface; destroy.
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man·gle 1   (māng'gəl)   
tr.v.   man·gled, man·gling, man·gles

  1. To mutilate or disfigure by battering, hacking, cutting, or tearing. See Synonyms at batter1.

  2. To ruin or spoil through ineptitude or ignorance: mangle a speech.


[Middle English manglen, from Anglo-Norman mangler, frequentative of Old French mangoner, to cut to bits; possibly akin to mahaignier, to maim; see mayhem.]
man'gler n.
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Word Origin & History

mangle 
c.1400, from Anglo-Fr. mangler, freq. of O.Fr. mangoner "cut to pieces," of uncertain origin, perhaps connected with O.Fr. mahaignier "to maim, mutilate, wound" (see maim). Meaning "to mispronounce (words), garble" is from 1533.
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Computing Dictionary

mangler
[DEC] A manager. Compare mango; see also management. Note that system mangler is somewhat different in connotation.
[The Jargon File]

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