munging

Verb

mung (third-person singular simple present mungs, present participle munging, simple past and past participle munged)

1. (informal) To make repeated changes to a file or data which individually may be reversible, yet which ultimately result in an unintentional irreversible destruction of large portions of the original data.
2. (broadly, informal) To harm, to damage; to destroy.

See all 3 meanings of mung

Verb

munge (third-person singular simple present munges, present participle munging, simple past and past participle munged)

1. (informal, transitive) To transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner, as for example when data wrangling requires nonsystemic or nonsystematic edits.
   • As a part of the code review with the development team, notify them that you want to have these options as a part of the installation script, rather than you munging the installation scripts during deployment.2011, Brian Knight, Ketan Patel, Wayne Snyder, Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration
2. (informal, transitive) To add a spamblock to (an email address).
   • Munging is effective — it prevents unwanted email from reaching you by keeping your real email address out of the clutches of the address-harvesting programs.1998, Alan Schwartz, Simson Garfinkel, Stopping spam
3. (informal, transitive, genealogy) To corrupt a record about a person by erroneously merging in information about another person.
   • It looks like this record is munged—it has this person’s birth date, but his father’s death date.