0 present participle of mangle --
1 to destroy something by twisting it with force or tearing it into pieces so that its original form is completely changed: --
Brooks was hit again, in the hand, mangling three fingers.
By mangling channels, using offsets, rotating and other manipulations, artistic effects can be achieved instead of accurately reproducing the original image.
He vents his rage on the construct, mangling it further.
Armes hit one with an ice-pick, detonating it and causing the mangling of both hands.
Further, requiring a particular form of mangling would cause issues for systems where implementation limits (e.g., length of symbols) dictate a particular mangling scheme.
Function overloading, however, is done at compile time using name mangling where the internal name of the function has the argument's type encoded in it.
It has limited support for private variables using name mangling.
Meta-data about these features can be disambiguated by mangling (decorating) the name of a symbol.
