mishandle

tr.v., -dled, -dling, -dles.

1. To deal with clumsily or inefficiently; mismanage.
2. To treat roughly; maltreat.

verb

1. To use wrongly and improperly: abuse, misapply, misappropriate, misuse, pervert. See treat well/treat badly/treat.
2. To harm irreparably through inept handling; make a mess: ball up, blunder, boggle, botch, bungle, foul up, fumble, gum up, mess up, mismanage, muddle, muff, spoil. Informal bollix up, muck up. Slang blow¹, goof up, louse up, screw up, snafu. Idioms: make a muck of. See correct/incorrect, help/harm/harmless.
3. To hurt or injure by maltreatment: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, mistreat, misuse. See help/harm/harmless.

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The verb has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: make a mess of, destroy or ruin
  Synonyms: botch, 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

Meaning #2: manage badly or incompetently
  Synonyms: mismanage, misconduct

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - mishandle, forkludre

Nederlands (Dutch)
verkeerd behandelen, mishandelen, verkeerd aanpakken, verknoeien

Français (French)
v. tr. - mal s'y prendre avec

Deutsch (German)
v. - schlecht angehen, falsch behandeln

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - κακομεταχειρίζομαι, χειρίζομαι αδέξια/άσχημα/κακά

Italiano (Italian)
trattar male

Português (Portuguese)
v. - manejar mal, maltratar

Русский (Russian)
неправильно обращаться, плохо справляться

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - tratar mal, maltratar, manejar mal, llevar mal

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - misshandla, missköta

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
粗鲁地对待, 错误地处理, 虐待

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 粗魯地對待, 錯誤地處理, 虐待

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 학대하다, 잘못 처리하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 乱暴に扱う, 虐待する, 誤って取り扱う, 処置を誤る

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يسيء المعامله‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮טיפל שלא כראוי‬

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