Mishandle Definition
mishandle
- verb
- 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"
- manage badly or incompetently; "The funds were mismanaged"
Words that rhyme with mishandle
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