mangle

Universal Words verb, noun verb [VN] [usuallypassive] 1 to crush or twist sth so that it is badly damaged: His hand was mangled in the machine. 2 to spoil sth, for example a poem or a piece of music, by saying it wrongly or playing it badly mangled adjective: mangled bodies / remains noun (also wringer) a machine with two ROLLERS(1) used especially in the past for squeezing the water out of clothes that had been washed