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Definition of 'mishandle'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) mishandle
to handle roughly; maltreat.

2. mishandle
to manage badly:
to mishandle an estate.

Etymology: (1375–1425)

Definition of 'mishandle'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) 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
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"

2. (verb) mismanage, mishandle, misconduct
manage badly or incompetently
"The funds were mismanaged"

Definition of 'mishandle'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) mishandle
to handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat

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