misrectify

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ rectify.

Verb

misrectify (third-person singular simple present misrectifies, present participle misrectifying, simple past and past participle misrectified)

  1. To err when attempting to rectify (a problem or mistake).
    • 1987, Shizuko Y. Fagerhaugh, Hazards in Hospital Care: Ensuring Patient Safety, page 127:
      At the task level itself, there may be errors of misassessing, mismonitoring, and misrectifying the safety requirements set up to achieve an errorless task accomplishment.
    • 2006, Christopher Evans, Ian Hodder, A Woodland Archaeology: Neolithic Sites at Haddenham, page 244:
      Perhaps the aerial photographs had been misrectified or the position of the ditches incorrectly surveyed.
    • 2017, Seymour Lipset, Social Organization of Medical Work:
      Misassessing a danger or a risk can result in a staff member's mismonitoring, mispreventing, and misrectifying.