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man·gle
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verb (used with object),
man·gled,
man·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;
Middle English
<
Anglo-French
mangler,
perhaps dissimilated variant of
Old French
mangonner
to mangle; akin to
mangonel
Related forms
man·gler,
noun
Synonyms
1.
See
maim.
2.
deface; destroy.
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mangle
1
(ˈmæŋɡ
ə
l)
—
vb
1.
to mutilate, disfigure, or destroy by cutting, crushing, or tearing
2.
to ruin, spoil, or mar
[C14: from Norman French
mangler,
probably from Old French
mahaignier
to maim]
'mangler
1
—
n
'mangled
1
—
adj
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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mangler definition
[DEC] A manager. Compare
mango
; see also
management
. Note that
system mangler
is somewhat different in connotation.
[
Jargon File
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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © Denis Howe 2010
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