misfix

present singular third person misfixes · participle present misfixing · participle past misfixed · past misfixed

1. To fix improperly.

   Any error in reading the drawings or misfixing the reinforcement may have disasterous^([sic]) results.

   2003, J.G. Richardson, Supervision of Concrete Construction 2, page 21

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   Still, if he does not know how he has misfixed himself, he knows that he is misfixed for we hear his murmurings of complaint, and we know the nature of them.

   1886, William Vickroy Marshall, Unfair Distribution of Earnings: The Evil Effects and the Remedy, page 228

   Bush may have intended to repeat the Republican derogation of “deadbeat dads,” but misfixed it to “ deadbeat fathers."

   1997, William Safire, Watching My Language: Adventures in the Word, page 33