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missynthesize

verb

Etymology

From mis- + synthesize.

  1. derived from σύνθεσις
  2. derived from synthesis
  3. suffixed as synthesize — “synthesis + ize”
  4. prefixed as missynthesize — “mis + synthesize”

Definitions

  1. To synthesize badly or incorrectly.

    • Now, Pound wrote no Imagistic poems as bad as my missynthesized example, but he quickly discovered that deliberately incongruous superimpositions could be used as a potent satirical tool:
    • By protecting DNA, selenium reduces the missynthesizing of proteins.
    • The hypothesis, as presently stated, requires the random appearance of myssynthesized proteins — that is, evidence of molecular missynthesis should not be confined to just a few enzymes, but should be ubiquitous.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for missynthesize. 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