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misrepair en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /mɪsɹɪˈpɛə(ɹ)/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From mis- + repair.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A repair that was done badly or wrongly.
    • 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:
    • Leading up the walls was an assortment of pipes, sputtering out water from its years of misrepair. 2018, Garrett Melick, 5028: Insight, page 62:
    • Some izoku have also pointed out that, having concluded that the 1978 misrepair was at fault, the report does not go into sufficient detail about how this misrepair could have happened, why it was not discovered or what steps can be taken to ensure there is no repeat of it. 2013, Christopher P Hood, Dealing with Disaster in Japan, page 77:
    • 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:
  2. (countable, uncountable) A repair that was done badly or wrongly. ▸ A faulty repair of DNA that produces genetic mutation.
    • 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:
    • 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:
    • 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:

Forms

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misrepairs Number=Plur lexicographic

misrepair en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /mɪsɹɪˈpɛə(ɹ)/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From mis- + repair.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To repair badly or wrongly.
    • Levying a charge will not, by itself, guarantee accountability: witness the millions of dissatisfied customers of the private sector travel agents who book the wrong holiday, solicitors who over-charge, builders who do shoddy work, garages that misrepair cars, estate agents who mislead, shops that sell defective goods and refuse refunds, etc. 2000, Neil Bateman, Advocacy Skills for Health and Social Care Professionals, page 53:
    • 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, page 185:
    • The consequences are that cells that have sustained damage to their DNA may successfully repair the damage, or may not detect the damage, or they may misrepair the damage. 2004, Christopher Potten, James Wilson, Apoptosis: The Life and Death of Cells, page 166:
    • 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:
    • 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

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misrepairing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
misrepairs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
misrepaired Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
misrepaired Tense=Past lexicographic