missharpen
verbEtymology
From mis- + sharpen.
- inherited from scharpenen
Definitions
To sharpen incorrectly.
- It is our opinion that this missharpening and thus consequent misuse would be the basic and primary source of the failure.
- Curbow credibly testified that a production line supervisor brought one bad cutter to Curbow complaining about how it was sharpened; Curbow thereafter checked the toolcrib and found three others similarly missharpened.
- If you have missharpened an instrument in this manner, you will notice that it does not engage calculus readily; instead , there is a tendency to slip over deposits.
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