mishandle

mishandle is a 9-letter English word with 3 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.
2. verb. manage badly or incompetently

   "The funds were mismanaged"

   Synonyms: misconduct, mismanage

3. verb. 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"

   Synonyms: blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollocks, botch, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, fumble, muff

Synonyms

misconduct, mismanage, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollocks, botch, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, fumble, muff, spoil

Common word forms

mishandled, mishandles, mishandling

Words from these letters

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