missynthesize

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verb

To synthesize badly or incorrectly.

Scrabble 30

Meanings

verbmissynthesize (third-person singular simple present missynthesizes, present participle missynthesizing, simple past and past participle missynthesized)

present singular third person missynthesizes · participle present missynthesizing · participle past missynthesized · past missynthesized

  1. To synthesize badly or incorrectly.

    By protecting DNA, selenium reduces the missynthesizing of proteins.

    2003, Sujoy Deyasi, Uniphase, page 88
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    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 144

    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.

    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

Origin

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