Associations to the word «Mangle»

MANGLE, verb. (transitive) To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.

MANGLE, verb. (transitive) (archaic) To wring laundry.

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

MANGLE, noun. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.

MANGLE, noun. The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.

MANGLE, noun. Clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers.

MANGLE, verb. Press with a mangle; "mangle the sheets".

MANGLE, verb. Injure badly by beating.

MANGLE, verb. Alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language".

MANGLE, verb. Destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work".