misrectify

Verb

misrectify (third-person singular simple present misrectifies, present participle misrectifying, simple past and past participle misrectified)

1. To err when attempting to rectify (a problem or mistake).
   • At the task level itself, there may be errors of misassessing, mismonitoring, and misrectifying the safety requirements set up to achieve an errorless task accomplishment.1987, Shizuko Y. Fagerhaugh, Hazards in Hospital Care: Ensuring Patient Safety, page 127
   • Perhaps the aerial photographs had been misrectified or the position of the ditches incorrectly surveyed.2006, Christopher Evans, Ian Hodder, A Woodland Archaeology: Neolithic Sites at Haddenham, page 244