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mangler

[mang-guhl]

man·gle

1[mang-guhl]
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

man·gler, noun


1. See maim. 2. deface; destroy.

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mangle1 (ˈmæŋɡəl)
 
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]
 
'mangler1
 
n
 
'mangled1
 
adj

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mangler definition


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