Misrectify

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To err when attempting to rectify (a problem or mistake).

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From mis- + rectify.

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