mangle

verb

1. (transitive)To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc.

   “mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail”

   “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”

2. (transitive)To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
3. (archaic, transitive)To wring laundry.

noun

1. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
2. 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.”

3. (Caribbean, US)Synonym of mangrove.
4. (Caribbean, US)Synonym of mangrove.
5. (Caribbean, US)Synonym of mangrove.

name

1. A surname.