Related:

• munch: [often confused with {mung}, q.v.] vt. To transform information in a serial fashion, often requiring large amounts of computation.
  To trace down a data structure. Related to {crunch} and nearly synonymous with {grovel}, but connotes less pain....
• munge: /muhnj/ vt. 1. [derogatory] To imperfectly transform information.
  2. A comprehensive rewrite of a routine, data structure or the whole program....
• massage: vt. Vague term used to describe `smooth' transformations of a data set into a different form, esp.
  ansformations that do not lose information. Connotes less pain than {munch} or {crunch}....
• munge /muhnj/ vt. 1. [derogatory] To imperfectly transform information.
  2. A comprehensive rewrite of a routine, data structure or the whole program....
• massage vt. [common] Vague term used to describe `smooth' transformations of a data set into a different form, esp.
  ansformations that do not lose information. Connotes less pain than munch or crunch....
• 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}....
• crunch: 1. vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way.
  Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform....
• geef: v. [ostensibly from `gefingerpoken'] vt. Syn.
  {mung}. See also {blinkenlights}. -- 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"....