Comment by Youden
12 hours ago
Not a German but Duden disagrees with you [0]: "etwas in der Absicht, es zu verbessern, schlechter machen".
12 hours ago
Not a German but Duden disagrees with you [0]: "etwas in der Absicht, es zu verbessern, schlechter machen".
German here, this is the right definition, trying to improve something but ending up making it worse.
that's not disagreeing at all (american partial german, partial pole)
It is a different meaning from that in the parent comment by OroPla.