View example sentences, synonyms and word forms for Mangle.
Mangle meaning
To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc. | To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
Example sentences (7)
There was no need to mangle the necklace again by getting worked up.
So I say this to those on the other side those that vulgarly distort our record and tirelessly twist, mangle and spit upon the truth; have you no shame?
Spurs’ comms team, then, managed to further mangle Mourinho’s already rather clunky horsey metaphor.
The perils of live TV were once again on show on the venerable BBC yesterday when a weather reporter managed to mangle joggers with dog walkers and came up with doggers.
In coastal zones there are coconut palms and in lagoons and estuaries are found thick areas of black mangrove and red mangrove ( Rhizophora mangle ).
The new state religion was condemned at the time in such terms as "a cloaked papistry, or mingle mangle".
This is true even for some binary nouns where the singular form is not found in isolation, such as a trouser mangle or the scissor kick.