misdiscover
English
Verb
misdiscover (third-person singular simple present misdiscovers, present participle misdiscovering, simple past and past participle misdiscovered)
- (transitive, very rare) To discover in a wrong or unacceptable way.
- 1987, Calvin Martin, The American Indian and the problem of history
- 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.
- 1987, Calvin Martin, The American Indian and the problem of history
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