misoperate
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]misoperate (third-person singular simple present misoperates, present participle misoperating, simple past and past participle misoperated)
- (usually intransitive) To operate incorrectly.
- 2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 31:
- Our research suggests that many signals could mis-operate during the [solar] storm, but at present we can't say precisely which signals are going to be affected or when the faults would occur.
Synonyms
[edit]- (operate incorrectly): malfunction, misbehave