mangling

Definitions

The act of severely damaging or disfiguring something, often by cutting, tearing, or crushing.

The act of spoiling or ruining something, such as a performance, text, or speech, through incompetence or carelessness.

Examples

The amateur mechanic ended up mangling the engine parts during his attempt to repair the car.

She was horrified by the mangling of her favorite poem during the student's dramatic reading.

The heavy machinery was responsible for the mangling of the metal sheets into scrap.

Synonyms

mauling mutilating crushing butchering maiming disfiguring lacerating

Antonyms

repairing mending restoring fixing healing preserving perfecting