What does misdrive mean?
Misdrive means (ambitransitive, rare) To drive badly or wrongly..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(ambitransitive, rare) To drive badly or wrongly..
Nightly it blazed, and waved its fiery tail, And made the dreaded Ursa Major quail; Destined but once before her fear to prove, When Phaeton the Solar car misdrove.
It removes culpability from any distortion and makes anything, no matter how heinous, a complete accident. A drunk driver who crashes a car into someone can now apologise for miscounting his alcohol intake before going on to misdrive into someone he mistook for a road.
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Misdrive means (ambitransitive, rare) To drive badly or wrongly..
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Nightly it blazed, and waved its fiery tail, And made the dreaded Ursa Major quail; Destined but once before her fear to prove, When Phaeton the Solar car misdrove.
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