misexploit

Verb

misexploit (third-person singular simple present misexploits, present participle misexploiting, simple past and past participle misexploited)

1. To exploit wrongly.
   • At last, you will be soothed in saying that you exploit us, in the healthy sense of the word, because right now, we are not even exploited in the unhealthy sense of the word, but simply killed as it is actually impossible to misexploit the Indian people.1974, Kanatha, page 7
   • Following their individual profit incentives, fishermen may be led collectively to misexploit and overexploit a stock, or even to destroy it.1980, Peter N. Nemetz, Resource Policy: International Perspectives, page 126