mangling
present participle ofmangle
mangle
verb
uk/ˈmæŋ.ɡəl/us/ˈmæŋ.ɡəl/[Toften passive]
todestroysomething bytwistingit withforceortearingit intopiecesso thatitsoriginalformiscompletelychanged:
Mysweatergot mangled in thewashingmachine.
Hisarmwas mangled in themachine.
[T]
If you mangle aspeechor apieceof writtenwork, you make so manymistakesthat youcompletelyspoilit:
As hereadthepoemoutloud, he mangled therhythmsobadlythat ithardlymade anysense.
Destroying and demolishing
- annihilate
- annihilation
- apocalypse
- bash
- bash through (something)
- be sacrificed on the altar ofsomethingidiom
- fall in
- in piecesidiom
- indestructibility
- killsomethingoff
- kill the goose that lays the golden eggidiom
- sacrifice
- self-destruct
- self-devouring
- shred
- sink
- stave
- stavesomethingin
- tear
- wipe
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Damaging and spoiling
Examplesofmangling
mangling
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
That table stores information relative to namemangling.
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This leads to an unnaturalmanglingof code, making the macro much harder to develop and maintain.
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C++ namemanglingis not powerful enough thus we have decided to use our own namemangling.
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I am talking about a modern pit, with very expensive equipment,manglingcoal.
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Any attempt to control them by a uniform set of rules must riskmanglingone of them.
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Many programming languages use namemanglingin order to pass along more semantic information from the compilers to the linkers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.After the form has been completed, the game uses the given information after appropriatelymanglingit.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Meta-data about these features can be disambiguated bymangling(decorating) the name of a symbol.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It has limited support for private variables using namemangling.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Function overloading, however, is done at compile time using namemanglingwhere the internal name of the function has the argument's type encoded in it.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Further, requiring a particular form ofmanglingwould cause issues for systems where implementation limits (e.g., length of symbols) dictate a particular mangling scheme.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Armes hit one with an ice-pick, detonating it and causing themanglingof both hands.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He vents his rage on the construct,manglingit further.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Bymanglingchannels, using offsets, rotating and other manipulations, artistic effects can be achieved instead of accurately reproducing the original image.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Brooks was hit again, in the hand,manglingthree fingers.
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