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1. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin
   "I mishandled the dinner and we had to eat out";
   - botch, bodge [Brit], bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub [N. Amer], screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bobble [N. Amer], louse up, foul up, mess up, butcher, goof up, balls up, cock up [Brit]
    
2. Manage badly or incompetently
   "The funds were mishandled";
   - mismanage, misconduct

Derived forms: mishandled, mishandles, mishandling

Type of: care, deal, fail, go wrong, handle, manage, miscarry