mangle

Saying a word in a different tone can distort or utterly mangle a line.

Plus, a slip of the electric knife can really mangle your roast.

They had her give the weather update, and even let her mangle the word “amok.”

Now, here seemed simple panic: and like a pack of dogs which rush to mangle a mongrel, they were at him pell-mell.

They are then damped on a water mangle, and beamed on to the heavy iron bowl of the beetling machine.

In a laundry visited when the boss was out, we conferred with the engineer about one particularly bad mangle.

The reason for the low wages listed for mangle work seems to lie only in nationality.

From the folders the sheets are carried away to a mangle, where they are folded over again by young girls.