missharpen

present singular third person missharpens · participle present missharpening · participle past missharpened · past missharpened

1. To sharpen incorrectly.

   I no longer have to worry about the possibility of the bits being missharpened or poorly swaged.

   2006, The Northern Logger and Timber Processor - Volume 55, page 8

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   It is our opinion that this missharpening and thus consequent misuse would be the basic and primary source of the failure.

   1981, Charles O. Smith, Products Liability: Are You Vulnerable?, page 128

   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.

   1983, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 1404

   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.

   1991, Anna Matsuishi Pattison, Gordon L. Pattison, Periodontal Instrumentation, page 298