What is the meaning of mangle?

noun

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

verb

• Press with a mangle.
  • usage: "mangle the sheets"
• Injure badly by beating.
  • synonyms: maul
• Alter so as to make unrecognizable.
  • usage: "The tourists murdered the French language"
  • synonyms: mutilate, murder
• Destroy or injure severely.
  • usage: "The madman mutilates art work"
  • synonyms: mutilate, cut up