missynthesize

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ synthesize

Verb

missynthesize (third-person singular simple present missynthesizes, present participle missynthesizing, simple past and past participle missynthesized)

1. To synthesize badly or incorrectly.
   • 1997, Daniel Albright, Quantum Poetics, page 144:

     Now, Pound wrote no Imagistic poems as bad as my missynthesized example, but he quickly discovered that deliberately incongruous superimpositions could be used as a potent satirical tool:

   • 2003, Sujoy Deyasi, Uniphase, page 88:

     By protecting DNA, selenium reduces the missynthesizing of proteins.

   • 2013, J.A. Zimmerman, H.V. Samis, M.B. Baird, H.R. Massie, “Properties of Catalase Molecules in Rats of Different Ages”, in V. Cristofalo, editor, Explorations in Aging, page 291:

     The hypothesis, as presently stated, requires the random appearance of myssynthesized proteins — that is, evidence of molecular missynthesis should not be confined to just a few enzymes, but should be ubiquitous.