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mishandle
verb
Manage badly or incompetently
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mɪsˈhændəl
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verb
Manage badly or incompetently
“The funds were mismanaged”
verb
Make a mess of, destroy or ruin
“I botched the dinner and we had to eat out”
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The funds were mismanaged
I botched the dinner and we had to eat out
The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement
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