Misdrive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Misdrive is a verb meaning (ambitransitive, rare) To drive badly or wrongly.
Meaning
(ambitransitive, rare) To drive badly or wrongly.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- misdrives
- misdriving
- misdrove
- misdriven
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include misderive, missteer, misdispose, misride, misexecute, misroute.
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