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means To crush, twist, or tear something (or someone's words, plans, or body) so badly it barely resembles its original shape.

from There are two mangles that collided into one word. The laundry mangle — that wringer contraption of rollers for pressing water out of wet sheets — comes from Dutch mangel, tracing back through medieval Latin mango to Greek manganon, a word for a war engine or device of trickery (same root family as 'mangonel,' a siege catapult). Separately, the verb 'to mangle' meaning to hack or mutilate comes from Old French mahaignier (to maim), related to 'maim' itself. They look alike, feel alike, and both involve things coming out worse than they went in — but etymologically they're cousins by coincidence, not descent.