cripple vs mangle

cripple

verb
  • To damage seriously; to destroy. 

  • To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired. 

  • To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless. 

  • To nerf something which is overpowered. 

  • To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally. 

noun
  • a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body. 

  • A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window. 

  • A rocky shallow in a stream. 

  • scrapple. 

mangle

verb
  • 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. 

noun
  • A mangrove (tree). 

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

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

How often have the words cripple and mangle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )