misexecute

verb

Etymology

From mis- + execute.

  1. derived from exsecutus
  2. derived from executer
  3. prefixed as misexecute — “mis + execute

Definitions

  1. To execute or carry out improperly.

    • Unfortunately, it is the last man in the chain that counts. He is the one who executes, or misexecutes, policy.
    • Thus someone may misexecute what he has decided to do after deliberation through failure to attend sufficiently closely to his actions, as when a surgeon fails to notice what sort of incision he is making.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misexecute. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA