mispatch

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ patch

Verb

mispatch (third-person singular simple present mispatches, present participle mispatching, simple past and past participle mispatched)

1. (transitive, computing) To patch wrongly.
   • 1990, PC Mag, volume 9, number 7:

     Make sure you have a good boot disk in case anything goes wrong, as your computer probably won't boot with a mispatched COMMAND.COM.

   • 2000, Network World, volume 17, number 50, page 82:

     When someone mispatches a cable, the subsequent repair job or hasty "What's wrong with this?" debugging often causes additional failures in short order.