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misrevise

verb

Etymology

From mis- + revise.

  1. derived from revīsō
  2. borrowed from réviser
  3. prefixed as misrevise — “mis + revise”

Definitions

  1. To revise in a manner that makes something worse.

    • Inexperienced or ineffective reader-writers often misrevise their drafts, their plans and goals.
    • Not all of Ransom's changes are disastrous, some improve, almost all show surprising ways in which passages can be turned into variations. We are given a thousand opportunities to misrevise.

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