verschlimmbessern

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (informal, weak) to make something worse in an honest but failed attempt to improve it
2. (informal, weak) to edit a text and thereby unintentionally distort it

Sinonieme

verballhornen

Vertalings

improve away

verfouteren

Dialekte

Kanton Aargau

verhonze

Data verskaf deur: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/fɛɐ̯ˈʃlɪmˌbɛsɐn/

Etimologie (Engels)

Blend of verschlimmern (“to make worse”) + verbessern (“to improve”), attributed to Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. See also disimprove.