miscancel

Verb

miscancel (third-person singular simple present miscancels, present participle (US) miscanceling or (UK) miscancelling, simple past and past participle (US) miscanceled or (UK) miscancelled)

1. To cancel by mistake.
   • No one will ever discover it, and, if they do, the lady has only to say that she stupidly miscanceled.1911, Ainslee's - Volume 26, page 137
   • The optical path external to the UHV chamber has to be purged with dry air, or held at rough vacuum, so that water vapor and CO₂ levels in the optical path are held at a constant level to avoid miscanceled absorptions obscuring vital parts of the IR spectrum.2012, Klaus Wandelt, Surface and Interface Science, Volumes 1 and 2
2. To make a mistake in the process of cancelling.
   • The prescriptions are sometimes irresponsibly written by general practitioners. We usually find miscancelled prescriptions arranged for the purpose of abuse.1973, Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Medica - Volume 19, page 287
   • So many copies have come down to us in which the title-page of the preliminaries is miscancelled, indeed , that it is surprising that we know of only one in which the earlier title-page is bound as printed.1983, The Book Collector - Volume 32, page 52