mangle

Noun

• clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers

Verb

• destroy or injure severely
  • The madman mutilates art work
    

• alter so as to make unrecognizable
  • The tourists murdered the French language
    

• injure badly by beating

• press with a mangle
  • mangle the sheets
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  mutilate , cut up , murder , maul