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misorchestrate

misorchestrate verb: to orchestrate badly; to arrange diverse elements in a way that fails to achieve the desired goal.

Verb

misorchestrate (third-person singular simple present misorchestrates, present participle misorchestrating, simple past and past participle misorchestrated)

  1. To orchestrate badly; to arrange diverse elements in a way that fails to achieve the desired goal.
    • The misorchestrated Kabisig — which, organizers will have the public know, is not a political party — is only one case in point.1991, Rosario A. Garcellano, Mean Streets: Essays on the Knife Edge, page 211
    • Assuredly, participation could in some cases be misorchestrated in ways unnecessarily interfering with individual autonomy.1995, Richard Sclove, Democracy and Technology, page 196

Forms of misorchestrate

third-person singular presentmisorchestrates
present participlemisorchestrating
past participlemisorchestrated
pastmisorchestrated

Origin of misorchestrate

From mis- + orchestrate.

Questions about misorchestrate

What does misorchestrate mean?
Misorchestrate means to orchestrate badly; to arrange diverse elements in a way that fails to achieve the desired goal.
What part of speech is misorchestrate?
Misorchestrate is a verb.
What is the past tense of misorchestrate?
The past tense of misorchestrate is misorchestrated.

Words near misorchestrate in the dictionary

  1. misoptimize
  2. misoptimized
  3. misoptimizes
  4. misoptimizing
  5. MisOr
  6. misorchestrate
  7. misorchestrated
  8. misorchestrates
  9. misorchestrating
  10. misordain
  11. misordained

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