misdevelop

verb

mis·​de·​vel·​op ˌmis-di-ˈve-ləp 

-dē-

misdeveloped; misdeveloping

transitive + intransitive

: to develop wrongly

… and its sap-sucking causes the developing seeds to wither and misdevelop.

—Leslie Powell

… there are plenty of lines of human endeavor … in which standardization is eminently proper; but it is peculiarly easy to misdevelop it into a wooden and cramping formalism.

—Theodore Roosevelt

Word History

First Known Use

1843, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for misdevelop

• redevelop
• develop
• envelop