What is the meaning of mishandle?

Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.
- usage: "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
- synonyms: 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
Manage badly or incompetently.
- usage: "The funds were mismanaged"
- synonyms: mismanage, misconduct

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