Rend vs Mangle - What's the difference?
rend | mangle |
To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 317:
To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
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.
In lang=en terms the difference between rend and mangle
is that rend is to be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split while mangle is to change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.As verbs the difference between rend and mangle
is that rend is to separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst while mangle is to change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.As a noun mangle is
a hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.rend
English
Verb
- Powder rends a rock in blasting.
- Lightning rends an oak.
- If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak / And peg thee in his knotty entrails till / Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.
- We are most vulnerable now to the messages of the new subcults, to the claims and counterclaims that rend the air.
- Relationships may rend if tempers flare.
- Rending of garments for shiva is a Jewish tradition.
Anagrams
* English irregular verbs ----mangle
English
(wikipedia mangle)Verb
(mangl)- mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail
- when they are disposed to mangle a play or novel