scribble
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." "It was working fine until one of the allocation routines
scribbled on low core." Synonymous with trash; compare mung, which conveys a bit
more intention, and mangle, which is more violent and final.
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