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Definition: Mishandle |
MishandleVerb1. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin. 2. Manage badly or incompetently; "The funds were mismanaged". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mishandle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Synonyms: MishandleSynonyms: ball up (v), blow (v), bobble (v), bollix (v), bollix up (v), bollocks (v), bollocks up (v), botch (v), botch up (v), bumble (v), bungle (v), flub (v), fluff (v), foul up (v), fuck up (v), fumble (v), louse up (v), mess up (v), misconduct (v), mismanage (v), muck up (v), muff (v), screw up (v), spoil (v). (additional references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Kenya | This is important because most of the operating personnel in Kenya are under-trained and the end-users' support staff are prone to mishandle equipment if they do not receive initial instructions and are not provided with comprehensive manuals. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Mishandle" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mishandle" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mishandle | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mishandle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | trajtoj pa kujdes, përdor pa kujdes. (various references) | |
Arabic | خاشن (maltreat, maul, rough), أساء المعاملة (mistreat), أساء الإدارة (misconduct). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | справям се зле, отнасям се грубо с (manhandle), не подхващам нещо правилно, малтретирам (abuse, bully, ill treat, ill use, maltreat, manhandle, mistreat, misuse, rough up, work over), изтървавам (drop, lose, mismanage, quit). (various references) | |
Chinese | 处理不". (various references) | |
Czech | špatnì zacházet s (mistreat). (various references) | |
Farsi | بداداره کردن (Maladminister, Misgovern, Mismanage), بدبکاربردن (Abuse, Misuse). (various references) | |
French | manier, maltraiter (mistreat, misuse), mal prendre. (various references) | |
German | falsch handhaben (to mishandle). (various references) | |
Greek | κακομεταχειρίζομαι (ill treat, ill use, maltreat, manhandle, mistreat, misuse), χειρίζομαι κακώσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לטפל לא כראוי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | rosszul bánik valamivel, bántalmaz (hit, hurt, to assault, to batter about, to bully, to injure, to maltreat, to manhandle, to misuse). (various references) | |
Italian | manovrare male, maneggiare male, maltrattare (abuse, ill treat, ill use, knock around, maltreat, manhandle, roughhouse), malmenare (beat up, ill treat, maul, pull about, rough up). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ishandlemay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | maltratar (abuse, bully, fib, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, manhandle, maul, mistreat, misuse, mob), tratar com rudeza (ill-treat, manhandle), dar mau tratamento a. (various references) | |
Romanian | maltrata (abuse, bedevil, ill treat, ill use, knock about, maltreat, maul, mistreat, misuse), nu şti sã se poarte cu, brutaliza (bedevil, brutalize, bully, misuse). (various references) | |
Russian | плохо обращаться (abuse, ill treat, ill use, maltreat, mistreat). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rđavo voditi, pogrešno rukovati, nespretno rukovati (fumble). (various references) | |
Spanish | manejar mal (misconduct, misdirect, mismanage), maltratar (abuse, bang about, batter about, ill treat, ill use, knock about, maltreat, manhandle, maul, mistreat, misuse, pull about, punish), administrar mal (misgovern, misguide, mismanage). (various references) | |
Swedish | missköta (mismanage). (various references) | |
Turkish | kötü idare etmek (misconduct), kötü davranmak (abuse, discriminate against smb., ill treat, maltreat, misdemean, mistreat, outrage, ride rough over, rough, serve, snub, tramp down, use smb. ill), hor kullanmak (batter, ill treat, ill use, mistreat, misuse). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | невміле користування (ill use), погане поводження (ill use, maltreatment). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mishandle": mishandled, mishandles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mishandle" (pronounced mi'sha"ndul) |
| 6 | -h a" n d u l | handle. |
| 5 | -a" n d u l | candle, sandal, scandal, vandal. |
| 4 | -n d u l | bindle, Brindle, bundle, dwindle, fondle, spindle, swindle, kindle, manhandle, panhandle, rekindle, Rundle, trundle, unbundle, Windle. |
| 3 | -d u l | addle, alkaloidal, antipodal, astraddle, backpedal, beadle, Bedell, befuddle, Boodle, bridal, bridle, caboodle, caudal, caudle, Coddle, colloidal, cradle, cuddle, dawdle, Doodle, feudal, fiddle, genocidal, girdle, homicidal, huddle, hurdle, idle, idol, idyll, straddle, suicidal, supermodel, intermodal, intertidal, ladle, medal, meddle, middle, minoxidil, modal, model, mollycoddle, muddle, needle, noodle, paddle, pedal, peddle, Piddle, poodle, puddle, pyramidal, remodel, rhizoidal, riddle, Ruddle, saddle, Seidel, sidle, tidal, toddle, twaddle, Tweedle, twiddle, Waddle, Wedel, widdle, yodel. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-i-l-m-n-s" | |
-2 letters: denials, dishelm, haemins, halides, handles, handsel, inhaled, inhales, lamedhs, maidens, malines, medials, medians, medinas, menials, mildens, misdeal, mislead, seminal, sideman, snailed. | |
-3 letters: aidmen, aisled, aliens, alined, alines, almehs, amends, amides, amines, animes, ashmen, daimen, damsel, danish, deasil, denial, denims, desman, dismal, elains, elands, emails, haemin, hailed, halide, halids, handle, hansel, hemins, hiemal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-i-l-m-n-s" | |
+1 letter: mishandled, mishandles. | |
+3 letters: blandishment, diminishable, malnourished, mischanneled. | |
+4 letters: blandishments, endotheliomas, lymphadenitis, mischannelled. | |
+5 letters: diphenylamines, hydroxylamines, methodicalness. | |
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