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To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc.transitive
- c. 1703-20, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage when they are disposed to mangle a play or a novel
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To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.transitive
mangle
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A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
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The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
- 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.
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To wring laundry.archaictransitive
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Synonym of mangrove.; Any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora, especially the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle).CaribbeanUS
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Synonym of mangrove.; A forest of such trees.CaribbeanUS
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Synonym of mangrove.; Preceded by a descriptive word: any of various shrubs or trees of genera other than Rhizophora which resemble plants of this genus in appearance and habitat.CaribbeanUS