1. To injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing.

2. To spoil, injure, or make incoherent especially through ineptitude

3. A machine for ironing laundry by passing it between heated rollers

No one in any part of the world is unaffected by these pressures. The commonalities of the human race in the pressures it faces are more than its points of difference, and many of those differences have strong roots in geographic determinism.

This determinism includes all issues, the existence or non-existence of which has the greater impact on the quality of life and choices, despite being beyond our control.

We cannot choose our parents, race, skin color, economic and social class of our family at birth, time of birth, language, and country in which we are born. But all of the above-mentioned points have a direct effect on our welfare, deficiencies and complexities, the feeling of being loved or rejected, and the security we feel.