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Definition of Mishandle
1. Verb. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin. "The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
Generic synonyms: Fail, Go Wrong, Miscarry
Derivative terms: Ballup, Botch, Botcher, Bumbler, Bungle, Bungler, Flub, Fluff, Foul-up, Fuckup, Fumbler, Mess-up, Screwup, Spoil, Spoilage, Spoiling
2. Verb. Manage badly or incompetently. "The funds were mismanaged"
Generic synonyms: Care, Deal, Handle, Manage
Derivative terms: Misconduct, Mismanagement
Definition of Mishandle
1. v. t. To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.
Definition of Mishandle
1. Verb. To handle badly, causing physical injury. ¹
2. Verb. To handle incorrectly, to make a mistake in handling a thing or situation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mishandle
1. [v -DLED, -DLING, -DLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mishandle
Literary usage of Mishandle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Odyssey by Homer (1905)
"Then let your heart endure within your breast When in my house they shall mishandle
me: " Yea, even if along the palace-floor They drag me by the feet, ..."
2. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"But I have ever observed that the foremost in the field are they who would scorn
to mishandle a prisoner. By St. Paul! it is not they who carry the breach ..."
3. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"... Most like to a beggar, wretched and aged by many a year; But if me in the
house they mishandle, yet in thine heart forbear, And refrain the soul within ..."
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