| 词汇 | misapplying |
| 释义 | misapplying present participle ofmisapply misapply verb[ T ] uk /ˌmɪs.əˈplaɪ/ us /ˌmɪs.əˈplaɪ/ to use something badly, wrongly, or in a way that was not intended: 用错;误用;滥用 It will be impossible to recover all the misapplied charity money.想要追回所有被滥用的慈善钱款是不可能的。 Synonym misuse Using and misusing adopt adoption avail avail yourself of something be/go heavy on somethingidiom exhaust give/allow something full playidiom go into something go through gobble something up make capital out of somethingidiom recycle spare swallow tap turn over turn to someone/something turn/use something to good accountidiom unblock underuse Related wordmisapplication Examples of misapplyingmisapplying In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. It is not surprising that subjects make errors by misapplying strategies that work for other tasks. It unifies a valley by clear demarcation instead of confusing and depriving the citizens of the valley by splitting villages and misapplying scarce resources. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He said democratic parties are, "looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedy". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are misapplying their intentions in this matter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am very much against misapplying this word "safety". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is much more useful to prevent people from doing wrong, to prevent people from misapplying funds than to send them to prison afterwards for having misapplied funds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The money is often used for irregular purposes, and at present there is nothing to, stop these bogus estate agents taking numerous deposits and misapplying them for their own purposes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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