Misdiscover
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Misdiscover is a verb meaning (transitive, very rare) To discover in a wrong or unacceptable way.
Meaning
(transitive, very rare) To discover in a wrong or unacceptable way.
Example Sentences
And when we are not leaving the original in-dwellers out of our stories of "peopling" the continent and developing "the" American population, we have been misdiscovering, misnaming, and misunderstanding them.
Word Forms
- misdiscovers
- misdiscovering
- misdiscovered
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include misdetect, misken, mislearn, mistake, misacknowledge, misidentify.
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