v
To falsely or maliciously charge another; to slander.
v
Misconstruction of bark up the wrong tree [(idiomatic) To do, believe, or pursue something wrong or inappropriate; to take the wrong approach; to follow a false lead; to blame or rebuke the wrong person.]
v
To have an incorrect belief, to be mistaken about one's judgment or statement concerning something. (This entry is a translation hub.)
v
To manage something badly.
n
The mispronunciation of words.
n
An intentional error, usually to avoid some worse outcome, especially when done as a ruse.
v
Misconstruction of calumniate [(transitive) To make hurtful untrue comments about.]
n
(dialect or uneducated) A mispronunciation of certificate.
n
(fencing) An ill-timed pass.
v
(transitive) To give a false or misleading account of
n
(music, colloquial) A mistake in performing.
n
(idiomatic, uncommon, archaic) A (falsified) bill that is not itemised, and that is unjustifiably high.
v
(intransitive, formal) To make a mistake.
v
(electronics, telecommunications, of a decoder) To incorrectly decode noise as if it were a valid signal.
n
(figuratively) An erroneous action or decision.
v
(informal, transitive) To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal) To mistake; make a mistake.
n
(archaic) Error-ridden Morse code transmitted by an inexperienced or inept operator
v
(transitive) To change (a word or phrase) to a nonstandard form in the mistaken belief that it is standard usage.
n
(formal, rare) An instance of mishearing, an error in hearing something correctly.
n
(rare) A “slip of the mouse”; an error occasioned by the use of a computer mouse.
adj
Misunderstanding or mishearing of like a bull in a china shop.
v
To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, such as a child learning to talk.
v
(transitive) To adjust badly or wrongly.
v
To administer wrongly or badly.
v
Misconstruction of malign [(transitive) To make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce.]
v
(anatomy, of bones) To articulate incorrectly
n
Communication that isn't well-intended, or doesn't happen as intended; miscommunication.
v
To invest incorrectly or unwisely
n
(sumo) The false start of a bout due to mutual misunderstanding.
v
Pronunciation spelling of miss (“to feel the absence of, or to fail to hit”), representing Latino-accented English. [(transitive, intransitive) To fail to hit.]
n
(proscribed) an incorrect capitalisation of MiG. (Russian fighters)
v
(transitive, rare) To add an apostrophe inappropriately
n
The person who was mishired.
v
Alternative form of mishit [(transitive) To incorrectly or badly hit.]
adj
Alternative spelling of mishoused [Provided with a dwelling or setting that is inadequate.]
v
(Britain, finance) To sell misleadingly, fraudulently, or in violation of laws or regulations.
v
(transitive, rare) To shoe incorrectly; put a shoe on wrong
n
(rail transport, Britain) An incorrectly made shunting operation, possibly causing a mishap.
adj
Alternative form of mistucked [Incorrectly or inadequately tucked]
v
To accentuate incorrectly.
v
(transitive) to account badly, wrongfully, or in error
v
(rare) To fail to acknowledge; to acknowledge wrongly.
n
The acquiring of something badly or wrongly.
v
(rare) To act badly or wrongly.
v
To adapt in the wrong way.
v
(transitive) To address (a letter, etc.) incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To adjust wrongly or unsuitably.
v
To administer wrongly or badly.
v
To adorn badly; to embellish with unflattering adornments.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To aim incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To allocate incorrectly or inappropriately.
n
An improper or unwise allocation, especially of money
v
(transitive) To allot or apportion badly or wrongly.
v
(rare) To wrongly join together; to wrongly ally with or to.
v
(transitive) To make a change that leaves (something) worse than before.
v
(chiefly UK England) Alternative form of misanalyze [To analyze incorrectly]
v
(genetics) To annotate incorrectly
n
a bad, wrong, or incorrect answer
v
To appear wrongly; to come into view in the wrong place or at the wrong time.
n
The misuse of something, incorrectly using (applying) something, a wrong application.
v
To apply incorrectly; to misuse.
v
(transitive) To appraise wrongly.
v
(transitive) To appreciate improperly; to fail to understand in the right way.
n
A failure to correctly and completely understand; an incorrect notion or belief that is a result of such a failure.
v
(transitive) To embezzle.
v
To place in a wrong order, or improper manner.
v
(transitive) To ascribe wrongly.
v
(transitive, rare) to ask amiss; ask badly, wrongfully, or incorrectly
v
(transitive) To assemble badly or wrongly.
v
To assert incorrectly or falsely.
v
(transitive) To assess incorrectly.
v
To have or create an incorrect or bad association.
v
(transitive) To assume incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To fail to look after properly.
v
To erroneously attribute; to falsely ascribe; used especially of authorship.
n
An incorrect attribution.
v
To attune badly or wrongly.
v
(transitive, rare) To authorize erroneously.
v
(obsolete) To misadvise.
v
To award incorrectly or inappropriately.
v
(obsolete) To carry improperly; (reflexive) to carry (one's self) wrongly; misbehave.
n
A false, wrong, or incorrect beat; a beat in the wrong time or rhythm.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To wrong; to do injury to.
v
To create or produce something badly.
adj
(by extension, figuratively) Ill-conceived.
adj
begun badly or incorrectly
v
(intransitive) To believe incorrectly; hold to a false belief.
v
(archaic, transitive) To be unseemly on or from; to fail to suit.
v
(transitive) To bestow improperly.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To make an incorrect offer or bid.
v
To blame wrongly; to blame one who is not guilty.
n
An instance of blowing incorrectly.
v
To board incorrectly (the wrong vehicle).
v
To foreshadow the future incorrectly.
v
To put in the wrong box.
v
(business, marketing) To make a mistake in branding a product or service, as by poor association of the name in a significant group of potential customers.
v
To breathe wrongly, to breathe irregularly
v
To breed with the wrong mate, resulting in inferior offspring.
v
(transitive) To brief incorrectly; to supply with wrong preparatory information.
v
(transitive) To build wrongly or badly.
v
(transitive) To button wrongly.
v
To make a gross error in judgement.
n
A person who miscalculates
v
To assign the wrong date to a document.
v
To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
v
To call (something) by the wrong name.
n
One who calls something by the wrong name.
v
To capitalize incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To caption incorrectly.
v
Of a letter etc.: to fail to reach its intended recipient.
n
An erroneous cast or reckoning.
v
(transitive) catalog incorrectly.
n
A misperception or misidentification.
v
To categorize incorrectly.
v
To certify something that does not meet the criteria for certification.
n
(obsolete) A false or misguided challenge.
n
(Internet, nonstandard) A message accidentally posted to the wrong IRC channel.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To undergo (a misfortune); to suffer (something unfortunate).
v
To channel badly or wrongly.
v
To characterize falsely or mistakenly
v
(law or finance) To charge wrongly.
v
To incorrectly mark an item when it is checked so that it does not go to the right place or is not returned to the correct person.
n
A bad or incorrect choice.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To choose incorrectly or badly; to make a wrong choice.
v
(transitive) To christen wrongly.
v
To circulate badly, such as among the wrong people or not widely enough.
v
To claim erroneously or fraudulently.
v
To classify incorrectly.
n
A defect in printing fabric that arises from improperly cleaning the rollers that apply the ink, leaving unintended marks on the fabric.
v
(transitive) To cleave wrongly.
v
(computing, transitive, intransitive) To perform an erroneous click with a computer mouse.
v
To make a mistake while climbing; to climb too far or in the wrong direction.
v
To clock incorrectly; to mistime.
v
To close (a deal) in error.
v
(transitive, rare) To codify in an incorrect way.
v
(obsolete) To fail to apprehend; to misunderstand.
adj
coined badly or incorrectly (in any sense)
v
To make errors in the process of collecting.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To set forth erroneously or unfairly.
v
(intransitive) To come wrongly or amiss; come at the wrong time; be inappropriate.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To communicate incorrectly.
n
An interaction between two parties in which information was not communicated as desired.
adj
Relating to, or exhibiting, miscommunication.
v
To compile (put together) incorrectly.
n
A wrong or incorrect computation
v
(transitive, obsolete) To form a wrong opinion about.
v
To form a misconception about something
v
To arrive at the wrong conclusion.
v
(transitive) To condition badly or wrongly.
v
(transitive) To mismanage.
v
(transitive) To configure something incorrectly or suboptimally.
v
(transitive) To conjugate incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To connect incorrectly.
v
To connote incorrectly; to imply something that is not true or valid.
n
A wrong consequence; a false deduction.
v
To consider wrongly; to misjudge.
v
Obsolete form of misconstrue. [(transitive) To interpret erroneously, to understand incorrectly; to misunderstand.]
v
To construe or interpret erroneously.
n
(grammar) An ungrammatical phrase.
adj
Being or relating to a misconstruction.
v
(transitive) To interpret erroneously, to understand incorrectly; to misunderstand.
v
To consume in an incorrect manner; to consume the wrong amount, the wrong things, or at the wrong place or time.
n
Contact that is inappropriate, mistaken, or destructive.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) converge incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To convert incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To convey wrongly or incorrectly; give a wrong or false impression of.
v
(transitive) To cook badly or incorrectly.
v
To fail to coordinate properly.
v
To copy incorrectly; to copy with mistakes.
v
To correct erroneously; to make a mistake in attempting to correct another mistake.
v
To correlate incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To counsel or advise wrongly.
v
to create wrongly or poorly
n
(rare) Someone or something which creates things wrongly or badly.
v
(transitive) To credit incorrectly.
n
(poetic) A bad or wrong creed.
v
To plant the wrong crops, so as to harm the usefulness of the land.
v
(theater) To give an incorrect cue.
v
(transitive) To cultivate badly or wrongly.
v
(transitive) To cure incorrectly.
n
(philately) Incorrect separation of postage stamps; a postage stamp resulted from such an error.
v
(transitive) To date incorrectly; to mark with the wrong date.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To deal or distribute wrongly.
v
(transitive, rare) To decide unwisely or incorrectly.
v
To decipher incorrectly.
n
A wrong decision; an instance of wrongly deciding.
n
An incorrect declaration, especially relating to how much tax one owes.
v
(especially genetics) To incorrectly decode
v
To decorate incorrectly.
v
To misjudge, to deem wrongly.
v
(transitive, chiefly bridge) To defend incorrectly.
v
To define a term in a manner that is not correct; to define wrongly.
v
(transitive) To deliver incorrectly.
v
(intransitive) To misbehave.
n
An incorrect derivation, especially of the etymology of a word.
v
(transitive) To derive erroneously.
v
(transitive) To incorrectly explain or detail something or someone.
n
An inaccurate description, often fraudulent.
v
(transitive) To design badly or incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To determine incorrectly.
v
To develop badly or wrongly.
v
(transitive) To devote mistakenly or unwisely.
v
To incorrectly diagnose.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To dial or use a keypad incorrectly, especially on a telephone.
v
To cause or command the wrong effect; to mislead.
v
(intransitive) To diet improperly.
v
To fail to differentiate correctly.
v
To dig incorrectly, such as in the wrong place.
v
To incorrectly analyze or summarize.
adj
(obsolete) Arrayed, prepared, or furnished unsuitably.
v
To put the incorrect address on a mail item
v
(transitive, very rare) To discover in a wrong or unacceptable way.
v
(transitive) To dispense incorrectly or amiss.
v
(transitive) To dispose badly or wrongly.
v
(transitive, rare) To make wrong distinctions in or concerning.
v
(transitive) To distribute incorrectly or unfairly.
n
Incorrect division, e.g. of a word.
v
(transitive) To do (something) incorrectly or improperly.
v
To doctor improperly; to give the wrong medical treatment.
v
To document incorrectly; to falsify or make an error in documentation.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To misjudge.
n
An error in the process of drafting (any sense).
v
To draw badly or wrongly.
v
(transitive, intransitive, rare) To drive badly or wrongly.
v
To drop (especially, to airdrop) incorrectly or in the wrong place.
v
To dub incorrectly (any sense).
v
To dump incorrectly, such as at the wrong place or time, or to dump something that should not have been dumped.
v
To duplicate incorrectly.
v
To edit badly or wrongly.
n
(obsolete) An incorrect or spurious edition.
n
The act or process of miseducating; incorrect education.
v
To emphasize incorrectly or inappropriately.
v
(transitive) To employ incorrectly; to misuse.
v
To empower inappropriately.
v
(transitive) To encode incorrectly.
n
A bad or wrong encounter.
v
To engender wrongly or badly; to misbeget.
v
(transitive) To enter or insert wrongly.
v
To give an inappropriate title to; to mistitle.
v
(obsolete) To treat wrongfully.
n
An erroneous entry or charge, as of an account.
v
To enumerate incorrectly; miscount.
v
To mispronounce due to poor articulation.
v
(transitive) To hold in the wrong esteem; to disrespect.
v
To estimate erroneously.
v
(lexicography) To derive erroneously; to provide an incorrect etymology.
v
To evaluate inaccurately or incorrectly.
v
To exchange what should not be exchanged, either in error or fraudulently
v
(transitive) To execute or carry out improperly.
v
(transitive) To give a false full form of (an abbreviation or acronym)
v
(transitive) To expend badly or wrongly.
v
To explicate incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To express incorrectly.
adj
Wrongly expressive; expressing the wrong meaning.
v
To fabricate incorrectly.
n
(countable) A wrong or untrue piece of information.
v
To refactor incorrectly.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To befall badly or incorrectly; happen unfortunately (to); mishappen; turn out badly.
v
(now Scotland) To fare badly; to be unlucky.
v
To do a poor job of farming.
v
To form or fashion wrongly.
v
(transitive) To feed incorrectly, as for example with the wrong foodstuff.
v
To feel wrongly or incorrectly
v
To fertilize incorrectly, especially to use the wrong type of fertilizer.
n
(nautical) The act of fetching to the wrong location.
n
(cricket, rugby) A failure to field the ball properly.
v
To miscalculate; to make a computational error.
v
(transitive) To file incorrectly; to file in the wrong place or the wrong way.
v
To supply the wrong thing in response to an order, prescription, or requirement.
v
To make a poor cinematic adaptation of
v
To unthinkingly or accidentally touch someone or something one should not.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To fit badly.
adj
Having been flung in error or ineptly.
v
To focus badly or wrongly.
n
An incorrect or abnormal folding.
v
To forecast incorrectly; to make an erroneous prediction.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To misgive.
v
(transitive) To form badly or wrongly.
v
To formulate incorrectly.
v
To forward to the wrong destination.
n
The act of framing something incorrectly.
v
(transitive, intransitive, rare, nonstandard) To friend wrongly, incorrectly, or by mistake; be a bad friend to.
v
(US) Alternative form of misgauge [To gauge (measure) incorrectly]
v
To infer or conclude incorrectly.
v
To gauge (measure) incorrectly
v
(transitive, grammar) To use the wrong grammatical gender with a word.
v
To make an incorrect generalization.
v
To generate incorrectly.
n
A gesture that is made in error.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To get wrongly or unlawfully; to procure by unlawful means.
v
(transitive, archaic) To give wrongly; to give or grant amiss.
v
To provide an incorrect translation or synopsis of
v
(intransitive, now rare or dialect) To go wrong, make a mistake, go astray, become lost, miscarry.
v
(transitive) To govern badly or wrongly.
v
(transitive) To grace or treat wrongly; disgrace; offend; ill-treat; disrespect
v
(transitive) To grade incorrectly.
adj
(obsolete) grafted wrongly; misgrafted
v
To fail to correctly understand; misunderstand.
v
To greet wrongly; (by extension) to affront or insult
v
(transitive) To groom badly or wrongly.
adj
Having been ground improperly.
v
(transitive) To group wrongly.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To grow incorrectly or amiss.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To hold a grudge for no reason or in error due to misunderstanding
v
To fail to guard properly.
v
(uncommon) To guesstimate incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To guide poorly or incorrectly; to lead astray or into error.
v
(intransitive) To do wrong.
n
(Britain, slang) Mission.
v
(transitive) To manipulate something roughly, causing physical damage.
n
An accident, mistake, or problem.
v
(obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
n
A poor harvest; a crop failure.
v
To haul incorrectly, such as to the wrong location, at the wrong time, or involving the wrong load.
v
(intransitive, reflexive, obsolete) To misbehave or misconduct (oneself); do wrong.
v
(rare, trannsitive) To provide the incorrect treatment to someone one is attempting to heal.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To hear wrongly.
v
(transitive) To heed amiss; fail to heed.
v
To herd into the wrong place.
v
To hire an unsuitable person for a job.
v
(transitive) To incorrectly or badly hit.
v
(transitive) To hold wrongly, badly, or amiss; lose hold (of); abuse; neglect.
v
(transitive) To fail to hope (in); hope amiss; lose hope; despair.
v
To hybridize incorrectly.
v
To hyphenate a word at an inappropriate point, especially one that is not between two syllables.
n
An instance of misidentifying; an erroneous identification.
n
One who misidentifies something.
v
To mistake the identity.
n
An implantation that occurs improperly; the act of misimplanting.
v
(transitive) To implement incorrectly or poorly
v
To imply something that is not true.
v
(transitive, archaic) To use for a bad purpose; to misuse.
v
(intransitive) To impute erroneously.
v
(rare, transitive) To cause to have a wrong inclination or tendency; to affect wrongly.
v
To include (something) that should not be included.
v
(transitive) To incorporate badly or wrongly.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To infer incorrectly.
v
To influence in a detrimental manner; to act as a bad influence on.
v
To inject (a substance) incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To insert incorrectly.
v
To misinterpret or overlook something when inspecting.
v
(transitive) To inspire falsely or wrongly.
v
To install improperly or by mistake.
v
To instruct badly or wrongly.
adj
Constituting misinstruction; instructing wrongly.
v
To integrate incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To intend, purpose, or direct amiss or wrongfully; mismean.
v
To interact incorrectly; to take part in an inappropriate interaction.
n
The act of misinteracting; interaction that should not occur or that occurs improperly.
v
To misestimate an interpolated data value.
n
A person who misinterprets, or makes misinterpretations
v
To insert (something) incorrectly to a system or environment; to insert (something) that does not belong there or to insert it in the wrong way.
v
To invest incorrectly or unwisely
v
To invoke (any sense) in error.
n
The act of misissuing something; issuance in error.
v
(transitive) To issue in error.
v
To join wrongly or improperly.
v
To make an error in judging, to incorrectly assess.
v
(transitive) To keep ill or wrongly.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal) To mistake one for another; mistake in point of knowledge or recognition; misconceive.
v
To key or key in erroneously; make a mistake in typing.
v
(transitive) To kick incorrectly or badly.
v
(transitive) To kindle amiss; inflame to a bad purpose.
v
To knit incorrectly; to make an error in one's knitting.
adj
Alternative form of misknit [Improperly fused or joined together.]
v
To tie a knot incorrectly.
n
Misapprehension; imperfect or incorrect knowledge; misunderstanding.
v
(transitive, archaic) To work badly or wrongly; to mismanage and thereby damage (farmland, etc.).
v
(transitive, intransitive) To land wrongly, incorrectly, or amiss.
v
To accidentally launch something that should not be launched.
v
To leave or lay something in the wrong place and then forget where one put it.
v
(nonstandard, rare or humorous) To mislead.
v
To accidentally or intentionally confuse.
v
(now Ireland, England regional) To molest, mistreat.
v
To assign the wrong level to
v
(linguistics) To lexicalize incorrectly; to assign the wrong meaning to a word or group of words.
v
(intransitive) To lie awkwardly, uncomfortably, or amiss.
v
To incorrectly divide into lines.
v
(transitive, Britain, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To suspect; to be suspicious of.
v
(transitive) To list incorrectly.
v
To misunderstand or misinterpret something to which one listens, especially as a result of poor attention.
v
To lead a wrong or evil life; live wrongly.
n
The act of loading something incorrectly.
v
To localize incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To lodge incorrectly, amiss, or in the wrong place.
v
To log incorrectly; to record incorrect information in a log.
v
(transitive) To miss in searching; mislay or lose temporarily; neglectively overlook.
v
(transitive) To love wrongly, insufficiently, inadequately, or imperfectly.
v
To lubricate incorrectly.
v
(intransitive) To meet with ill luck; miscarry.
v
To machine incorrectly; to fail to shape perfectly.
v
(transitive) To mail incorrectly; to send (a letter etc.) to the wrong place.
v
To maintain improperly; to provide inadequate maintenance.
v
(transitive, reflexive) To disturb (oneself); put (oneself) out.
v
(transitive) To manage an area of responsibility in a way which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest.
v
To maneuver in a way that has an unfortunate result.
v
To manipulate badly; to operate in a way that does not achieve the intended result.
v
To manufacture improperly.
v
(transitive) To map incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To mark incorrectly; err in noting or marking.
v
(transitive) To market ineffectively or inappropriately.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To get married to an unsuitable person.
v
(transitive) To mate or match wrongly or unsuitably; mismatch.
v
(transitive) To mean or intend wrongly; mistake the meaning of; misinterpret.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To measure incorrectly or inaccurately.
v
To come together but fail to properly communicate or connect in positive ways.
v
To memorize inaccurately.
v
(transitive) To mend improperly; to attempt to fix without success.
n
A message that conveys information that the sender does not wish to convey.
v
To metabolize improperly.
v
(transitive) To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse.
v
To methylate incorrectly.
v
Alternative form of mismeter [(transitive) To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse.]
v
To mold improperly, producing an unintended result.
v
(of a ewe) To fail to care for her own lamb
v
To motivate toward the wrong goal.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To move wrongly, incorrectly, or in error.
v
To mumble the wrong words.
v
(transitive) To give an unsuitable or injurious name to; name incorrectly.
n
One who misnames something.
v
(transitive) To narrate incorrectly.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To navigate incorrectly.
v
To make a mistake when trying to make one's way over (difficult terrain); to misstep or stumble when trying to avoid (obstacles).
v
To err when nesting one item or set of items within another.
adj
(dated) Given the wrong name; referred to by a misnomer.
v
(transitive) To use a misleading term; to misname.
adj
(rare) Being a misnomer.
v
(transitive, rare) To normalize incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To note incorrectly.
n
The act of misnotifying.
v
To notify improperly, giving inaccurate information, or giving the correct information to the wrong people or in the wrong manner.
v
(transitive) To number incorrectly.
v
To numerate incorrectly; to misnumber.
v
(transitive) To nurture or train wrongly.
v
(transitive) To obey incorrectly; to make a mistake in following orders.
v
To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing.
v
To occupy with something inappropriate; to focus or spend on something unworthy.
v
To open what one should not open.
v
(usually intransitive) To operate incorrectly.
v
To optimize badly, emphasizing the wrong criteria or failing to take advantage of potential improvements.
v
To orchestrate badly; to arrange diverse elements in a way that fails to achieve the desired goal.
v
To improperly ordain into a ministry.
v
(transitive) To sort or arrange incorrectly.
v
To orient badly or wrongly.
v
(intransitive) To become incorrectly positioned, especially to face in the wrong direction.
v
(transitive) To own, claim, or appropriate wrongly or amiss; fail to own; disown.
v
To pace or step incorrectly.
v
To pack badly or wrongly.
v
To package badly or wrongly.
v
(transitive) To paginate incorrectly.
n
The incorrect arrangement of pages in a document.
v
(transitive) To paint incorrectly; paint falsely or in wrong colours.
v
To pair incorrectly; to mismatch in twos.
v
To paraphrase incorrectly.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To park badly or wrongly.
v
To parrot incorrectly; to make an imperfect attempt to repeat what one has heard.
n
An instance of incorrect parsing; a misparsing.
v
(transitive, computing) To patch wrongly.
n
A pattern that has an error or flaw in it.
v
(transitive) To pay incorrectly, or to the wrong person.
v
To incorrectly ascribe a value or attribute to.
v
To pen badly or wrongly.
n
(law enforcement, slang) A missing person.
v
To perceive erroneously.
adj
(philately) Clipping of misperforated. [(philately) Incorrectly perforated.]
v
To perform badly or wrongly.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To assail with abusive language.
v
(transitive) To persuade amiss.
v
To put or become out of phase.
n
An instance of something being phrased badly or wrongly.
n
(business) The accidental substitution of an incorrect item in the fulfilment of an order.
n
(textiles) An instance of mispinning.
v
To do a poor job of promoting or selling someone or something, or to attemp such promotion at the wrong place or time.
v
(figuratively) To apply one's talents inappropriately.
n
One who misplaces something.
v
(transitive) To plan badly or incorrectly.
n
Something that has been misplanted.
v
To plate incorrectly. (any sense)
v
(transitive) To play incorrectly or poorly.
v
To plead amiss or in a wrong manner; err in pleading.
v
(transitive) To fail in pleasing; displease.
v
To pledge foolishly or in error.
v
To incorrectly mark the position of.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To pluck incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To point improperly; to punctuate wrongly.
v
To cause, or to undergo mispolarization
v
(transitive) To portray inaccurately.
v
To position incorrectly.
v
To post badly or wrongly.
v
To make a mistake while pouring.
v
(transitive, rare) To praise falsely, injudiciously, or without good reason.
v
To preach a mistaken or erroneous sermon.
n
An instance of mispredicting; an incorrect prediction.
n
(rare) One who predicts something incorrectly.
v
To prepare badly; to provide inadequate or inappropriate preparation.
v
To prescribe (a medicine) erroneously.
n
The erroneous prescription of a medicine.
v
(transitive) To present badly or wrongly.
v
To preserve badly or to preserve something that does not merit preservation.
v
(transitive) To press (a record) incorrectly.
n
An instance of a record being pressed incorrectly.
v
To price incorrectly or unsuitably.
n
An accidental mistake in print.
n
One who prints incorrectly.
v
To prioritize inappropriately.
v
Alternative spelling of misprize [To despise or hold in contempt; to undervalue.]
n
(uncountable) In full misprision of felony or misprision of treason: originally, a less serious form of felony or treason; later, the crime of (intentionally) failing to give information about a felony or treason that one knows about; (countable) an instance of this.
n
An instance of misprobing.
v
(transitive) To process incorrectly.
v
To proclaim wrongly, such as by proclaiming false information, or proclaiming in the wrong manner.
v
To procure incorrectly; to procure in a manner not in accordance with official policies and procedures.
n
The act of misprocuring.
v
To produce something poorly, or in an improper way
v
(transitive) To profess falsely; to teach incorrectly or make an incorrect claim.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To make an incorrect prediction.
v
(transitive) To program incorrectly.
v
(rare) Alternative form of misprogram [(transitive) To program incorrectly.]
v
To make a mispromise; to promise insincerely.
v
To promote incorrectly; to advertise or advocate for something other than the intended use.
n
The act of promoting someone to a position for which they are not qualified.
v
(transitive) To refer to (someone) using third-person pronouns other than their preferred gender pronouns, either unknowingly or intentionally.
v
(transitive) To pronounce (a word, phrase, etc.) incorrectly.
n
(countable) A mispronounced word or phrase.
v
To prosecute badly or ineptly.
v
(intransitive) To provide badly or wrongly.
v
To publicize in a misleading, biased, or inaccurate manner.
v
To publish in a way that contains errors.
v
To pull badly, using incorrect technique.
v
To punch the wrong key or button on a keyboard, keypad, keypunch, or similar device.
v
To punctuate incorrectly.
v
To punish inappropriately; to give the wrong amount or type of punishment, or to punish someone for an offense they did not commit.
n
An incorrect or inappropriate purpose.
v
To pursue in the wrong way.
v
(transitive, rare) To put badly or wrongly.
v
(intransitive, rare, golf) To putt badly or wrongly.
v
(transitive) To qualify incorrectly.
v
To quantify incorrectly.
v
To incorrectly record a quote.
v
(transitive) To rank wrongly or incorrectly
v
(transitive) To rate erroneously.
v
To react inappropriately.
v
To read wrongly; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of.
v
To reason badly; to form an irrational conclusion.
v
(transitive) To recall incorrectly.
n
An act of receiving something illegitimately or in error.
v
(transitive) To receive illegitimately or in error.
n
An inaccurate recitation.
v
(reflexive, obsolete) To make a wrong calculation, to be in error.
v
(sociology) To deliberately fail to recognize, or pretend to do so
v
(transitive) To recollect incorrectly; to misremember.
v
(transitive) To record incorrectly.
v
To recount inaccurately; misrelate; to tell an untrue version of events.
v
To recover inaccurately; to restore or recreate imperfectly.
n
The act or process of misrecovering.
v
To recruit someone who is inappropriate.
v
To err when attempting to rectify (a problem or mistake).
v
(transitive, archaic) To advise unwisely or to bad purpose; miscounsel; misadvise.
v
To redeem inappropriately; to convert to cash under invalid circumstances.
v
to incorrectly reference (something)
v
To mirror inaccurately; to reflect a distorted image of.
n
A reform that ends up making things worse.
v
To register incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To regulate wrongly or imperfectly.
v
(transitive) To rehearse or quote incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To relate inaccurately.
v
To relay incorrectly; to garble while transferring.
v
To release incorrectly, i.e. to release something that should not be released, or to release in the wrong way.
v
To relegate inappropriately.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To remember incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To render incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To repair badly or wrongly.
v
(transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
v
(transitive) To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of.
v
To represent falsely; to inaccurately portray something.
v
(transitive) To resolve incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To route incorrectly; to send the wrong way.
v
To rule badly; to misgovern.
v
(transitive) To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
v
(Canada, US) To be incorrect in one's assumption.
v
(nautical) To fail in going about from one tack to another.
v
(of a projectile) To fail to hit the target.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To say something erroneous; to speak wrongly.
n
(rare) One who missays; a misspeaker.
v
(chiefly poetry) to scan incorrectly
v
(transitive) To schedule badly or wrongly.
v
To write or inscribe incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To seat badly or wrongly.
v
(transitive) To see incorrectly; to misperceive visually; take a wrong view of; see in a false or distorted light.
v
(obsolete) To seek for wrongly.
v
(literary) To be unbecoming to; not to suit.
v
To segregate incorrectly (typically, chromosomes)
v
(transitive) To sell something wrongly or fraudulently.
v
(transitive) To send incorrectly or to the wrong destination.
v
(transitive) To place in the wrong location.
v
To sex incorrectly; to incorrectly determine the sex of.
v
To shape badly or incorrectly.
adj
(archaic) Wrongly sheathed; sheathed in a wrong place.
v
(transitive) To place on the wrong shelf; to misclassify.
n
An instance of something being misshelved.
n
(rare) Sight proved to be wrong; an instance of seeing something that turned out to be something else or nothing at all.
v
To sign improperly or incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To signal wrongly or in error
v
(obsolete, transitive) To sit badly or imperfectly upon; to misbecome.
n
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A mistake; an error.
v
(transitive) To sort incorrectly; to misorder.
v
To sound or pronounce wrongly.
v
To space badly or incorrectly.
v
(transitive, intransitive, chiefly US) To fail to pronounce, utter, or speak correctly.
v
To spend poorly, incorrectly or unwisely.
v
To incorrectly splice (typically of nucleic acid strands)
v
(transitive) To mark (dice) with the wrong number of spots, generally in order to cheat.
v
To start badly or wrongly.
v
To make a statement that is in error, inadvertently; to say incorrectly, through a slip of the tongue.
v
To steer badly or wrongly.
n
(figuratively) An error or mistake.
v
(rare) To stop badly or wrongly.
adj
Stowed wrongly, incorrectly, or improperly.
n
(numismatics) A coin or medal with an irregularity, defect or error.
v
(transitive) To structure badly or wrongly.
v
(transitive) To style or name incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To fail to suit.
n
Wrong summation; incorrect addition.
v
(transitive) To suppose incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To synchronize incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To tag incorrectly; to mislabel.
n
An instance of incorrect tagging.
v
(obsolete, rare) To take or choose wrongly.
v
(intransitive) To make an accidental tap on a touch screen.
v
(transitive, archaic) To taste wrongly or in error
v
(transitive) To tell inaccurately.
v
To call by a wrong name; to miscall.
v
(UK, Yorkshire, obsolete) To misteach; teach badly or wrongly.
v
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To think wrongly or badly (of).
v
(transitive) To thread incorrectly.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To happen or come to pass through misfortune.
v
(transitive) To tie incorrectly.
v
To do at the wrong time; especially to misjudge the timing of coordinated events.
v
(transitive) To title incorrectly; to give the wrong name to.
v
(transitive) To give a bad or wrong tone to.
v
(transitive) To trace incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To draw (something) badly or in the wrong direction.
v
(transitive) To transcribe incorrectly.
v
To transliterate incorrectly.
n
An incorrect transliteration.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To think wrongly.
v
(transitive) To tune wrongly.
v
(intransitive) To go wrong; make a wrong turn.
v
(transitive) To tutor badly or amiss.
v
To categorize incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly.
v
(transitive) To use (something) incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To value wrongly: to misjudge the value of.
v
(intransitive, rare) To vote incorrectly.
v
(obsolete, rare) To wear badly or wrongly.
v
(obsolete) To believe wrongly; to misconceive.
v
(obsolete) To go wrong; to stray.
v
(transitive) To wire incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To word incorrectly.
v
(transitive) To worship (a deity, etc.) wrongly.
v
(transitive) To write incorrectly.
n
A bad, wrong, or incorrect yield or product.
v
To join or yoke improperly.
n
(South Africa, sports) blunder
n
(rare) A misunderstanding of a written or spoken phrase as a result of multiple definitions.
adj
(card games) Having had points deducted for making a mistake which another player then pointed out.
n
An obvious error that is obstinately repeated despite correction.
n
The incorrect seating of the charge of a firearm in this manner.
v
To make spelling mistakes by adding extra letters.
v
To reason falsely; to draw conclusions not warranted by the premises.
v
To come to the wrong conclusion; to make a false inference.
v
(soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
v
To mishit (a shot on a ball) due to poor contact with the ball.
v
(transitive, set phrase) To misunderstand (something), especially in a case of mistakenly regarding someone's behavior or remarks as offensive or hostile.
v
(non-native speakers' English) Misconstruction of transduce [(transitive) To convert energy from one form to another]
n
(informal) Any badly played or discordant piece of music.
v
To make a typographical error.
v
To report a number falsely, making it smaller than it ought to be, especially to do so intentionally
v
(transitive) To misdirect; mislead.
v
Alternative form of wrongtake [(transitive, UK, Yorkshire, dialectal, obsolete) To misunderstand or mistake]
v
Alternative form of wrongtake [(transitive, UK, Yorkshire, dialectal, obsolete) To misunderstand or mistake]
v
(transitive, UK, Yorkshire, dialectal, obsolete) To misunderstand or mistake
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