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English Dictionary: mishandle |
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2 results for mishandle |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- mishandle
- v
- 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
- manage badly or incompetently; "The funds were mismanaged"
Synonym(s): mismanage, mishandle, misconduct
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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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