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English Dictionary: mishandle by the DICT Development Group
2 results for mishandle
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"
    Synonym(s): 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"
    Synonym(s): mismanage, mishandle, misconduct
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mishandle \Mis*han"dle\, v. t.
      To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.
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