Mangle vs Mangled - What's the difference?
mangle | mangled |
To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.
* Milton
* Jonathan Swift
(archaic) To wring laundry.
(computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
As verbs the difference between mangle and mangled
is that mangle is to change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc while mangled is past tense of mangle.As a noun mangle
is a hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.As an adjective mangled is
mutilated, twisted, or disfigured.mangle
English
(wikipedia mangle)Verb
(mangl)- mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail
- when they are disposed to mangle a play or novel