单词 | misdevelopment |
释义 | misdevelopmentn. Inadequate, faulty, or misdirected development; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > growth > types of growth > abnormal or excessive development excrescency1638 misdevelopment1841 1841 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 4 32 It is, if anything, like idiocy, a congenital misdevelopment of the brain. 1904 Science 1 Apr. 553/1 I attribute the cause of this misdevelopment of the muscles and tendons of the feet and legs to the kind of nest lining used by the canaries. 1933 Planning 9 May 7 There are plenty of people determined to proceed with misdevelopment..so long as it is allowed. 1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 367/1 Rosenbaum..thought that female alcoholism was an expression of personality misdevelopment. 1993 Econ. Jrnl. 103 420 The excessive wealth differences both between and within Muslim countries and the mis-development of some Islamic regimes are passed over. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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