mangle
Definitions
To severely mutilate, disfigure, or damage something by cutting, tearing, or crushing.
To spoil or ruin something, such as a performance or text, through incompetence or clumsiness.
A machine formerly used for pressing laundry by passing it between heavy rollers.
Examples
The heavy machinery began to mangle the scrap metal into unrecognizable shapes.
He managed to mangle the pronunciation of the foreign words so badly that no one understood him.
The car was completely mangled in the high-speed collision.