MANGLE

(DESTROY) [verb] [T] - to destroy (something) by twisting it with force or tearing it into pieces so that its original form is completely changedMy new jumper got mangled in the washing machine.Doctors managed to reattach the finger of a man whose hand had been mangled by an electric saw.All that remains of yesterday's car crash is a pile of mangled metal.If you mangle a speech or a piece of written work, you make so many mistakes that you completely spoil it.As he read the poem out loud, he mangled the rhythm so badly that it scarcely made any sense.