Meanings
present singular third person missynthesizes · participle present missynthesizing · participle past missynthesized · past missynthesized
- To synthesize badly or incorrectly.
By protecting DNA, selenium reduces the missynthesizing of proteins.
2003, Sujoy Deyasi, Uniphase, page 882 more examples
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:
1997, Daniel Albright, Quantum Poetics, page 144The 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.
2013, J.A. Zimmerman, H.V. Samis, M.B. Baird, H.R. Massie, “Properties of Catalase Molecules in Rats of Different Ages”, in V. Cristofalo, editor, Explorations in Aging, page 291
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