mangle
verb- [usually passive]
to tear or twist something so that it is badly damaged 压碎;撕烂;严重损坏 - mangle something
to change something good into something bad, for example a language or a piece of music, by saying it wrongly or playing it badly synonym ruin糟蹋(如蹩脚的诗朗诵或拙劣的演奏) I find it strange the way he mangles the English language. 我觉得他曲解英语的方式很奇怪。
Word Originverb late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French mahangler, perhaps a frequentative of mahaignier ‘maim’.