v
(transitive, obsolete) Misrepresent; adulterate.
n
(obsolete) Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.
v
To spread inaccurate or false information.
n
(coin collecting) A type of error coin in which one side of the coin has the normal design and the other side has a mirror image of the same design impressed upon it.
n
A shortening in pronunciation.
v
(intransitive, of a measuring instrument) To lose calibration and therefore not be accurate.
v
(transitive, dated) To show (an opinion, belief, etc.) to be mistaken.
v
(transitive) To supply with disinformation.
v
(transitive) To use disinformation.
v
(transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
n
Any of the incorrect answers in a multiple-choice question.
n
The act of one who errs; sin.
v
(telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
n
A word encountered more often in writing than in speech, and thus liable to be pronounced incorrectly.
n
showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong
n
(cartography) Distortions of area; differences in the areas of objects on a map compared to true scale.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To worship wrongly, misworship.
adj
(colloquial) Synonym of hit-or-miss.
n
(formal) A slip of the pen, a miswriting.
n
(rare) A “slip of the finger”; a miskeying.
v
(intransitive, colloquial) To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To self-inflict real injury or infection (to inflict self-harm) in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
n
Marketing, especially when designed to mislead; false advertising.
n
The deceptive interception and rebroadcast of navigation signals to confuse an enemy.
n
Alternative form of misprize [(obsolete, rare) Contempt.]
v
To engage in microinvalidation, to make a relatively small statement or action (microaggression) that negates another person's experience, thoughts or feelings.
v
(transitive, usually used in the passive) To offend slightly.
n
An act of misaccusing; a false accusation.
v
(obsolete) To affect in a negative way.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To be unsuitable for; not to befit.
v
(intransitive or reflexive) To act or behave in an inappropriate, improper, incorrect, or unexpected manner.
n
An incorrect bid or offer.
v
To budget too much or too little.
v
(now dialectal) To call (someone) bad names; to insult, abuse.
v
To fail to achieve some purpose; to be unsuccessful, to go wrong (of a business, project etc.).
v
To cast an actor in an inappropriate role.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To do a mischief to; to harm.
v
(now Scotland) To damage, do harm to; to injure.
n
(civil engineering, by extension) The degree to which the model of the forces acting on a structure fail to account for the observed shape of that structure.
adj
(of a child) Illegitimate.
v
To provide the wrong amount of payment as compensation.
v
To confide in someone who does not deserve such trust.
v
(transitive, very rare) To reclassify (an offense) as a misdemeanor.
n
One who misdescribes something.
v
(transitive) To detect wrongly, or where not actually present.
v
(usually followed by "with") To provide or endow with something that is not a benefit.
n
(archaic) Lack of esteem; disrespect.
v
(obsolete) To go astray; to transgress, to sin.
n
The act or result of misfilling a receptacle.
v
(by extension) To fail to achieve the anticipated result.
v
(transitive, archaic) To suspect; to dread.
v
(archaic) To happen through misfortune; to mishappen.
v
(now rare) To happen through misfortune.
v
(transitive) To give or deliver false, fake, or misleading information.
n
One who gives wrong information; a misinformer.
adj
Providing incorrect information; misleading.
n
One who mislabels something.
v
To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.
v
To introduce an angle on something so that is supposed to be perfectly flat.
v
(transitive) To locate incorrectly.
n
(very rare) Sinful looking.
v
(intransitive) To behave, in a management capacity, in a manner which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest.
n
One who or that which mismatches.
n
The process of sending mismessages.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England) To disturb; trouble; to disconcert; alarm; flurry.
v
(rare, obsolete) To disoblige.
v
To predestine or cause to occur, with unfortunate results.
v
(reflexive) To become confused about one's position relative to one's environment; to become disoriented.
n
Alternative form of misspense [(obsolete) Improper spending; waste.]
n
(rare) A plot error; an inconsistency or mistake in creating a storyline.
v
(transitive) To possess illicitly, as by theft.
v
(transitive, archaic) To slander, blame, or disparage.
v
To despise or hold in contempt; to undervalue.
v
(transitive) To give the wrong proportions to.
adj
Purporting to be representative without actually being so.
v
To hold in the wrong estimation; to repute or estimate erroneously.
n
An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give)
v
(slang, archaic) To fail in one's plan or attempt.
v
Alternative form of miss the point [To fail to grasp the meaning of an utterance or situation.]
v
(figuratively) To fail to achieve the intended result.
v
(informal) To be unaware of the current state of affairs.
n
(obsolete) A misshapen person; a misshapen body.
v
(obsolete, nonce word) To perform Mass.
adv
(obsolete) With a sense of loss.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To speak insultingly or disrespectfully.
n
(obsolete) Improper spending; waste.
adj
Spent in a bad way, squandered
v
(transitive, obsolete) To take wrongly or in error; mistake; err
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To have sinful thoughts.
v
Obsolete form of mistrust. [(transitive) To have no confidence in (something or someone).]
v
(transitive) To break an engagement with.
v
(colloquial, nonstandard, malapropism or humorous) To underestimate by mistake.
n
A person who misuses something.
v
(archaic) To vouch falsely.
n
(obsolete, in later use dialectal) An insult.
v
To mishandle; to bungle.
v
(networking) To acknowledge negatively; to send a NAK signal to.
v
(statistics, modelling) To estimate what is currently happening based on knowledge of how data is biased.
v
(natural language processing) To assign meaning to incorrect sentences.
n
(law) The act of misrepresenting a counterfeit product as the genuine article.
n
(law) The act of misrepresenting the origin of a product.
n
(sports) A blocked shot.
n
A mistake made when speaking, for example saying the wrong word accidentally.
n
A faux pas, a social error.
n
A mistake made during the process of typing, especially one caused by a slip of the fingers.
v
(archaic) To confess a misdeed.
v
To translate (language) in insufficient detail, or failing to translate certain elements.
v
To show in a bad light; to portray unfavorably.
v
To cause to be done at the wrong time.
adj
Of a projectile: missing the target.
v
To slander; to impute evil to unjustly.
v
To do something wrong; to break a rule or offend.
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