From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Mishandle \Mis*han"dle\, v. t.
To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mishandle
v 1: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and
we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult
passage in the second movement" [syn: {botch}, {bodge},
{bumble}, {fumble}, {botch up}, {muff}, {blow}, {flub},
{screw up}, {ball up}, {spoil}, {muck up}, {bungle},
{fluff}, {bollix}, {bollix up}, {bollocks}, {bollocks up},
{bobble}, {mishandle}, {louse up}, {foul up}, {mess up},
{fuck up}]
2: manage badly or incompetently; "The funds were mismanaged"
[syn: {mismanage}, {mishandle}, {misconduct}]
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