MISHANDLE


Meaning of MISHANDLE in English

(ˈ)mis+ transitive verb

Etymology: Middle English mishandelen, from mis- (I) + handelen to handle — more at handle

1. : to treat roughly or cruelly : maltreat

dragged her out and mishandled her — Polly Adler

tormented, mishandled, shamefully cast away peoples — Sir Winston Churchill

2. : to manage wrongly or ignorantly

many of them also mishandle or totally ignore some of the basic philosophic problems of materialism — Eliseo Vivas

mishandled the car and burned out a bearing

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