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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
misdirect
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Wyche's ideas may be misdirected at times but we need people like him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ From Lovell's Marxist perspective the feminist debates outlined above are misdirected for a variety of reasons.
▪ His conviction was quashed on appeal in 1994 on the grounds that the trial judge misdirected the jury.
▪ I'd hoped the shock would, at the very least, cause her to misdirect the stream and wet her shoes.
▪ I suggest his outrage is misdirected.
▪ It is an anger they misdirect toward Los Angeles, or poor people, or immigrants.
▪ Such efforts are, we believe, misdirected.
▪ Their essential feature is that they misdirect the enemy's attack, so that it fails to damage any vital organs.
▪ You have the gift of a sense of humour, but with you it's misdirected.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misdirect

Misdirect \Mis`di*rect"\, v. t. To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.
--Shenstone.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
misdirect

c.1600, "give wrong directions to;" see mis- (1) + direct (v.). Related: Misdirected; misdirecting.

Wiktionary
misdirect

vb. To direct something wrongly

WordNet
misdirect

  1. v. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" [syn: corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave]

  2. lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions; "The pedestrian misdirected the out-of-town driver" [syn: mislead, misguide, lead astray]

  3. put a wrong address on; "misdirect the letter" [syn: misaddress]

Usage examples of "misdirect".

Kara to misdirect them and then slipped through the perimeter when the officers started toward the girl.

The only answer I can come up with is that at the proper moment I will be expected to misdirect it.

While some of the crew staged that street brawl to misdirect any passersby, the others never had to pick no lock.

Magical apparatus often assumes commonplace shapes, to misdirect the audience.

Magical apparatus normally serves to set up or misdirect audience expectations.

Although his eyes are an impure blue, while mine are the colour generally described as hazel, the difference is not noticeable, and again we can use theatrical make-up to misdirect attention.

Elric and Ing-Radi will lead the second group in an attempt to misdirect, to convince the Shadows that we are actually gathering in another location.

I had seen it with my own eyes, and I had watched in the knowledge of how to watch a magician at work, and I had looked in all the places from which a magician traditionally misdirects his audience.

The creation of robots was looked upon as the prime example of the overweening arrogance of humanity, of its attempt to take on, through misdirected science, the mantle of the divine.

They know I have misdirected them once before, by planting false information in the mind of one of our scouts.

Our economy is unstable, our culture is stagnating, our ambition has been misdirected and stifled.

Minds are overburdened in school, with too much teaching or misdirected teaching.

Treatment intended to be remedial is therefore very often misdirected and fails to afford relief, positive injury frequently resulting instead.

I have misdirected you with the talk of truth, objective records and motives.

Alassra had survived far worse than a misdirected traveling spell, though usually it took more than children and domestic animals to confound her.