misdistinguish
English
Etymology
mis- + distinguish
Verb
misdistinguish (third-person singular simple present misdistinguishes, present participle misdistinguishing, simple past and past participle misdistinguished)
- (transitive, rare) To make wrong distinctions in or concerning.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for misdistinguish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)