mislaunching

Verb

mislaunch (third-person singular simple present mislaunches, present participle mislaunching, simple past and past participle mislaunched)

1. To launch a projectile or vehicle so that it does not follow the correct trajectory.
   • The boy's arm aimed, mislaunched, and the dart swam through the air towards the front of the class, landing near Miss Fry.1970, Anthony Burgess, The Worm and the Ring, page 254
2. To accidentally launch something that should not be launched.
3. To fail in the introduction of a product or program.
   • For it is the intense suspicion of many that the total cost and worth of all the projects launched and mislaunched by this regime would not approximate even fifty percent of the total internal and external indebtedness running to several billions of dollars for which this dispensation has mortgaged...1985, Bal Cordero Falcone, Christian Economics for the Philippines, page 25

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