mishandle
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, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up • Derivationally related forms: fuckup (for: fuck up), mess-up (for: mess up), foul-up (for: foul up), fluff (for: fluff), bungle (for: bungle), bungler (for: bungle), spoil (for: spoil), spoilage (for: spoil), spoiling (for: spoil), ballup (for: ball up), screwup (for: screw up), flub (for: flub), fumbler (for: fumble), bumbler (for: bumble), botcher (for: botch), botch (for: botch) • Hypernyms: fail, go wrong, miscarry • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s - Somebody ----s something 2. manage badly or incompetently - The funds were mismanaged • Syn: mismanage, misconduct • Derivationally related forms: misconduct (for: misconduct), mismanagement (for: mismanage) • Hypernyms: manage, deal, care, handle • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something
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