Definition of "mangle"

mangle¹

/ˈmæŋ.ɡəl/

verb
third-person singular simple present mangles, present participle mangling, simple past and past participle mangled
1. (transitive) To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc.
  Quotations
  mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail
  1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
  when they are disposed to mangle a play or a novel
  c. 1703-20, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage
2. (transitive, computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.

mangle²

/ˈmæŋ.ɡəl/

noun
plural mangles
1. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
2. The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
  Quotations
  There was a bright-red plastic baby-bath, a car tyre, a rusty mangle, and something that looked like a primitive version of a washing machine.
  1993, John Banville, Ghosts
verb
third-person singular simple present mangles, present participle mangling, simple past and past participle mangled
1. (transitive, archaic) To wring laundry.

mangle³

/ˈmæŋ.ɡəl/

noun
plural mangles
1. A mangrove (tree).