Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To regulate wrongly or imperfectly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To regulate wrongly or imperfectly; to fail to regulate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
regulate wrongly or imperfectly.
Etymologies
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mis- + regulate
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Examples
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Salisbury et al. have shown that transcribed CCTG repeats are found in both the nucleus and the cytoplasm of DM2 myoblasts and that the RNA repeats misregulate translation
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Morgan A. Sammons et al. 2010
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