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
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