misrectify

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.