Misintroduce
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To name or describe (someone or something) incorrectly when making an introduction; to present (someone or something) by the wrong name or description.
"The first thing I did was to misintroduce an engineer to somebody else. I never did get all the engineers straightened out — they weren't in L & S."
- 2 To insert (something) incorrectly to a system or environment; to insert (something) that does not belong there or to insert it in the wrong way.
"Bedrnik ( 1970a ) obtained greater development of E . tenella merozoites after using inocula containing “misintroduced" cells from the cecum of chickens."
Example
More examples"The first thing I did was to misintroduce an engineer to somebody else. I never did get all the engineers straightened out — they weren't in L & S."
Etymology
From mis- + introduce.
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