Mispreserve
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To preserve badly or to preserve something that does not merit preservation.
"There is no positive evidence of the fact, but that proposition was raised is the exact reason why it is provided in the election law that you can't open a ballot box and can't take any cognizance of ballots that have been so mispreserved."
Example
More examples"There is no positive evidence of the fact, but that proposition was raised is the exact reason why it is provided in the election law that you can't open a ballot box and can't take any cognizance of ballots that have been so mispreserved."
Etymology
From mis- + preserve.
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