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• mangle vt. 1. Used similarly to mung or scribble, but more violent in its connotatio
  omething that is mangled has been irreversibly and totally trashed....
• ash: vt. To destroy the contents of (said of a data structure).
  The most common of the family of near-synonyms including {mung}, {mangle}, and {scribble}....
• cribble: n. To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally destructive way.
  Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program went berserk and scribbled on the i-node table....
• mung: /muhng/ [in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good'
  ometime after that the derivation from the {{recursive acronym}} `Mung Until No Good' became standard] vt....
• omp on: vt. To inadvertently overwrite something important, usually automatically.
  All the work I did this weekend got stomped on last night by the nightly server script....
• clobber: vt. To overwrite, usually unintentionally
  I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack....
• ash vt. To destroy the contents of (said of a data structure).
  The most common of the family of near-synonyms including mung, mangle, and scribble....
• gunch: /guhnch/ [TMRC] vt. To push, prod, or poke at a device that has almost (but not quite) produced the desired result.
  Implies a threat to {mung}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• crog: /skrog/ [Bell Labs] vt. To damage, trash, or corrupt a data structure.
  The list header got scrogged." Also reported as `skrog', and ascribed to the comic strip "The Wizard of Id"....