Mangle (verb)
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Destroy or severely damage by tearing or crushing. / Ruin or spoil (a text, piece of music, etc.)
Late 17th century from Dutch mangel, from mangelen ‘to mangle’, from medieval Latin mango, manga, from Greek manganon ‘axis, engine of war’.
Example sentences
“The car was mangeled almost beyond all recognition.”
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