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Definition of misdirect
transitive verb
1 : to give a wrong direction to
2 : to direct wrongly misdirected their energies
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Examples of misdirect in a Sentence
Their mail was misdirected to our address.
If he tells you he's not interested, he's trying to misdirect you.
Recent Examples of misdirect from the Web
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Jansen's quibbles aren’t unfair, but his anger, while understandable, is misdirected.
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Linda Van Horn, a professor and nutritional epidemiologist at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, suggests that consumer concern about sodium nitrite might be misdirected.
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There were those who felt rumors of the Lakers’ concerns about Ball were simply smokescreens determined to misdirect other teams from the truth — that the Lakers were still most interested in Ball.
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I'm reminded of a time when I was intentionally misdirected — on a story with much lower stakes.
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But the fact that these films have some high ambition doesn't negate that the ambition is largely misplaced, or at least misdirected.
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In February, The New York Times reported that the Trump administration planned to continue work on an Obama-era program that charged the Pentagon with developing hacking tools to disable or misdirect launched North Korean missiles.
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First Known Use of misdirect
1603
MISDIRECT Defined for English Language Learners
misdirect
playDefinition of misdirect for English Language Learners
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: to use or direct (something) in a way that is not correct or appropriate
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: to send (someone or something) to the wrong place
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: to give (someone) incorrect information
MISDIRECT Defined for Kids
misdirect
playDefinition of misdirect for Students
misdirected
;misdirecting
: to send to the wrong place The mail was misdirected.
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