Usually means: Incorrectly identify someone or something.
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  1. misidentify: Merriam-Webster
  2. misidentify: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. misidentify: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. misidentify: Collins English Dictionary
  5. misidentify: Vocabulary.com
  6. misidentify: Wordnik
  7. misidentify: Wiktionary
  8. misidentify: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. misidentify: Dictionary.com
  10. misidentify: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. misidentify: Rhymezone
  12. misidentify: FreeDictionary.org
  13. misidentify: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. misidentify: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. misidentify: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. misidentify: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (misidentify)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To mistake the identity of (something or someone).

Similar:
mistake, misken, misfigure, miscompare, mislabel, mislead, misobserve, misconceive, mishear, misperceive, more...

Opposite:
identify correctly, recognize, distinguish, pinpoint

Types:
mistake, confuse, error, miscalculate, underestimate, overestimate, disregard, neglect, more...
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Similar:
mistake, misken, misfigure, miscompare, mislabel, mislead, misobserve, misconceive, mishear, misperceive, more...

Opposite:
identify correctly, recognize, distinguish, pinpoint

Types:
mistake, confuse, error, miscalculate, underestimate, overestimate, disregard, neglect, more...



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