Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To correct erroneously; alter wrongly in attempting to correct.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To fail or err in attempting to correct.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
correct erroneously ; to make amistake in attempting to correct another mistake.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
mis- + correct
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