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missharpen en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + sharpen.

Meanings

1. To sharpen incorrectly.
   • Curbow credibly testified that a production line supervisor brought one bad cutter to Curbow complaining about how it was sharpened; Curbow thereafter checked the toolcrib and found three others similarly missharpened. 1983, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 1404:
   • It is our opinion that this missharpening and thus consequent misuse would be the basic and primary source of the failure. 1981, Charles O. Smith, Products Liability: Are You Vulnerable?, page 128:
   • If you have missharpened an instrument in this manner, you will notice that it does not engage calculus readily; instead , there is a tendency to slip over deposits. 1991, Anna Matsuishi Pattison, Gordon L. Pattison, Periodontal Instrumentation, page 298:
   • I no longer have to worry about the possibility of the bits being missharpened or poorly swaged. 2006, The Northern Logger and Timber Processor - Volume 55, page 8:

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