Misdiscover

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To discover in a wrong or unacceptable way. rare, transitive

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From mis- + discover.

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