misrepair
/mɪsɹɪˈpɛə(ɹ)/
misrepair noun: a repair that was done badly or wrongly.
Noun
misrepair (countable and uncountable, plural misrepairs)
- A repair that was done badly or wrongly.
- Stipulations between a landlord and tenant, determining which shall bear a loss arising from nonrepair or misrepair of the tenement, and which shall be immune, are not matters of public concern.1937, David Stewart Edgar, Cases on the Law of Torts, page 652
- If a manufacturer's product is improperly repaired by the user and that misrepair is the proximate cause of the plaintiff's injuries, then the manufacturer is not liable for the plaintiff's injuries.1983, Edward L. Birnbaum, Product Liability Litigation, page 300
- A faulty repair of DNA that produces genetic mutation.
- It is clear that "misrepair" can occur by mechanisms which are not the same for all types of damage.2012, Peter Cerutti, Anticarcinogenesis and Radiation Protection, page 325
- Lesions for which repair or misrepair systems exist will have increased probabilities of repair or misrepair as the time between lesion formation and DNA replication increases.2013, A. D. Woodhead, Assessment of Risk from Low-Level Exposure to Radiation and Chemicals, page 178
Verb
misrepair (third-person singular simple present misrepairs, present participle misrepairing, simple past and past participle misrepaired)
- To repair badly or wrongly.
- If you are just plain lucky, the mechanic will likely perform unnecessary repairs or misrepair your car so that it has to be fixed again.1972, Donald A. Randall, Arthur P. Glickman, The Great American Auto Repair Robbery, page 77
- Whether they are involved in carcinogenesis by induction of a heritable lesion would depend, I believe, on their ability either to mispair or to misrepair.1982, Yutaka Kawazoe, “Molecular Mechanism of Chemical Modification of Cellular Nucleic Acid Bases by 4-Hydroxyaminoquinoline 1-oxide”, in Carcinogenic and Mutagenic N-substituted Aryl Compounds...
Examples of misrepair in a sentence
- Leading up the walls was an assortment of pipes, sputtering out water from its years of misrepair.2018, Garrett Melick, 5028: Insight, page 62:
- This suggests that the probability of misrepair increases with increasing dose.2013, Oddvar F. Nygaard, Warren K. Sinclair, John T. Lett, Effects of Low Dose and Low Dose Rate Radiation, page 128:
- Wang et al. suggest that ageing is the result of the accumulation of “misrepair.”2017, P.K. Ray, Ageing a boon or a bane: Issues, Concerns and Remedies:
- He is someone who finds himself with an upset stomach when his wife is angry with her boss or her dentist or the jeweler who misrepaired her digital watch .1998, Robert Kegan, In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life, page 73:
Forms of misrepair
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | misrepairs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | misrepairs |
| present participle | misrepairing |
| past participle | misrepaired |
| past | misrepaired |
Origin of misrepair
From mis- + repair.
Questions about misrepair
- What does misrepair mean?
- Misrepair means a repair that was done badly or wrongly.
- How do you use misrepair in a sentence?
- Leading up the walls was an assortment of pipes, sputtering out water from its years of misrepair.
- What part of speech is misrepair?
- Misrepair can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce misrepair?
- Misrepair is pronounced /mɪsɹɪˈpɛə(ɹ)/.
- What is the plural of misrepair?
- The plural of misrepair is misrepairs.
Words near misrepair in the dictionary
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