misadjust

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misadjust
Verb
  • Their heart rates were higher, and their insulin function was impaired the following morning.
    Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Kinman's mother, December Mitchell, and stepfather, Jonathan Mitchell, were charged with tampering with and fabricating physical evidence to impair a human corpse, which is a second-degree felony.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Just under two million Palestinians—virtually the entire population of Gaza—have been displaced since October 2023, many repeatedly, and Israeli forces have damaged or destroyed more than 90 percent of homes in the Strip.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • This protection also works to protect plants that are marginally hardy in your area, such as hydrangeas blooming on old wood that may not bloom if their flower buds are damaged by cold.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • No human journalist was harmed in this experiment.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • They are hurt and they are harmed by the article, and also they are disgusted by some of the things that were said in the article.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • If they were considered unimportant to the team’s chances of success, Zidane and Ancelotti did not worry too much if their feelings got hurt.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
  • This week's episode began with the announcement that Elaine Hendrix, star of the 1998 version of The Parent Trap, would be unable to compete in the competition that evening, after hurting her rib during rehearsals the same morning.
    Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The next day, however, a football-style tussle left him injured.
    Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The 2023 edition opened a month later as Israel intensified its bombing campaign on Gaza, which has since killed more than 67,000 people, injured another 170,000 and razed the Palestinian territory to the ground, prompting accusations of genocide, which Israel has strongly rejected.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
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“Misadjust.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misadjust. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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