Mangle

Christianity is not the answer, and it has even managed to mangle the question.

How did Tom mangle his hand?

mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail

c. 1703-20, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage when they are disposed to mangle a play or a novel

There was a bright-red plastic baby-bath, a car tyre, a rusty mangle, and something that looked like a primitive version of a washing machine.