To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate
clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language"
disapproval If you say that someone mangles words or information, you are criticizing them for not speaking or writing clearly or correctly. They don't know what they're talking about and mangle scientific information. a machine used in former times to remove water from washed clothes by pressing them between two rollers
If a physical object is mangled, it is crushed or twisted very forcefully, so that it is difficult to see what its original shape was. His body was crushed and mangled beyond recognition. the mangled wreckage