"mismanipulate" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "mis- + manipulate",
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      "form": "mismanipulates",
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    {
      "form": "mismanipulating",
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    {
      "form": "mismanipulated",
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      "form": "mismanipulated",
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        "past"
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        {
          "ref": "1926, Coal Age - Volume 29, page 461",
          "text": "By a system of shafts, levers and links the overwinding and overspeeding device which is geared to the depth indicator is attached to the hoist-control lever in such a way that the machine would be stopped automatically should the hoistman mismanipulate his levers at the beginning or end of a hoist.",
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          "ref": "1932, The Railroad Telegrapher - Volume 49, page 146",
          "text": "We managed to mismanipulate the old bus so they would miss their train and stay over an extra day.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Sociocriticism - Issues 3-6, page 152",
          "text": "Anyway, cocksure and anxious to show off on the stage, the young student mismanipulates the chemicals under his helpless brother's eyes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Zhendong Sun, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Stability Theory of Switched Dynamical Systems, page 170",
          "text": "Second, the switching device may mismanipulate in certain cases.",
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        "To manipulate badly; to operate in a way that does not achieve the intended result."
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          "operate",
          "operate"
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      ]
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  "word": "mismanipulate"
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  "etymology_text": "mis- + manipulate",
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      "form": "mismanipulates",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "mismanipulating",
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          "ref": "1926, Coal Age - Volume 29, page 461",
          "text": "By a system of shafts, levers and links the overwinding and overspeeding device which is geared to the depth indicator is attached to the hoist-control lever in such a way that the machine would be stopped automatically should the hoistman mismanipulate his levers at the beginning or end of a hoist.",
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