verschlimmbessern

Anlam (İngilizce)

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

Eş anlamlılar

verballhornen

Çeviriler

improve away

verfouteren

Lehçeler

Aargau

verhonze

Veriler tarafından sağlanmıştır: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

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/fɛɐ̯ˈʃlɪmˌbɛsɐn/

Etimoloji (İngilizce)

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