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, 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]

2 manage badly or incompetently; "The funds were mismanaged" [syn: mismanage, misconduct]

English

Verb

1. To handle badly or incorrectly, to make a mistake in handling a thing or situation.

abuse, batter, be negligent, beat up, befoul, botch, bruise, brutalize, buffet, bugger up, bungle, convert, debase, defalcate, defile, desecrate, destroy, divert, do violence to, do wrong by, do wrong to, embezzle, foul, fuck up, harm, hurt, ill-treat, ill-use, injure, knock about, knock around, maladminister, maltreat, mangle, manhandle, maul, mess up, misadminister, misapply, misappropriate, misconduct, misdirect, misemploy, misgovern, misguide, mismanage, misrule, mistreat, misuse, molest, muddle, muff, outrage, peculate, pervert, pilfer, pollute, profane, prostitute, rough, rough up, roughhouse, ruin, savage, screw up, violate, wreck