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Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To resolve incorrectly. transitive

   "Our prototype implements a basic pharming attack to selectively misresolve the client domain name requests."

Example

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"Our prototype implements a basic pharming attack to selectively misresolve the client domain name requests."

Etymology

From mis- + resolve.

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