aberuncate
v. C2 Proficiency aberun·cate
v. to make something wrong or to cause a mistake. This is an old word that people rarely use today.
v. to cause an error or to make something incorrect.
The witness's testimony was intended to aberuncate the truth.
In the old legal system, a single mistake could aberuncate the entire contract and render it invalid.
From Late Latin aberuncare, from Latin averruncare.