misdevelop
verb
mis·de·vel·op
ˌmis-di-ˈve-ləp
-dē-
misdeveloped; misdeveloping
: 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
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