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
