misdevelop
verb
mis·de·vel·op ˌmis-di-ˈve-ləp 
-dē-
misdeveloped; misdeveloping
transitive + intransitive
: to develop wrongly
… and its sap-sucking causes the developing seeds to wither and misdevelop.
Leslie Powell
Leslie Powell… there are plenty of lines of human endeavor … in which standardization is eminently proper; but it is peculiarly easy to misdevelop it into a wooden and cramping formalism. Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Word History
First Known Use
1843, in the meaning defined above
- protolanguage
- protolanguages
- protolignin
- protolithic
- protolog
- protoloph
- protoma
- protomammal
- protomammales
- protomammalian
- protomammals
- protomartyr
- protomartyrs
- Protomastigida
- protome
- protomeristem
- Protomonadida
- protomorphic
- Protomycetales
- proton
- proton pump inhibitor
- proton synchrotron
- protonate
- protonated
- protonates