mangle
mang guhl
- n clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
- v press with a mangle
mangle the sheets - v injure badly by beating
- v alter so as to make unrecognizable
- v destroy or injure severely
- And let it be recorded that Obama's first act as President was to correct Chief Justice John Roberts, who managed somehow to mangle the 35-word oath of office, misplacing the word .
- The new Kong does accidentally mangle a few people, but there's no real rage in him.
- But they didn't want their loved ones "mangled .