Mangle vs. Rangle — What's the Difference?

To mutilate or disfigure by battering, hacking, cutting, or tearing

In falconry, rangle is a term used for small stones which are fed to hawks to aid in digestion. These stones, which are generally slightly larger than peas, are used less often now than they were historically.

To ruin or spoil through ineptitude or ignorance

To range about in an irregular manner.

To press with a mangle.

To range about in an irregular manner.

A machine for pressing fabrics by means of heated rollers.

Chiefly British A clothes wringer.

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

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

To wring laundry.

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

The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.

A mangrove (tree).

To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate.

To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or performing; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.

To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.

A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure, often with heated rollers.

Clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers

Press with a mangle;

Injure badly by beating

Alter so as to make unrecognizable;

Destroy or injure severely;