misdrive
English
Etymology
mis- + drive
Verb
misdrive (third-person singular simple present misdrives, present participle misdriving, simple past misdrove, past participle misdriven)
- (transitive, intransitive, rare) To drive badly or wrongly.
- 1857, Thomas Baker, The Steam-engine, Or, The Powers of Flame (page 93)
- Nightly it blazed, and waved its fiery tail,
And made the dreaded Ursa Major quail;
Destined but once before her fear to prove,
When Phaeton the Solar car misdrove.
- Nightly it blazed, and waved its fiery tail,
- 2009, Armando Iannucci, The Audacity of Hype
- It removes culpability from any distortion and makes anything, no matter how heinous, a complete accident. A drunk driver who crashes a car into someone can now apologise for miscounting his alcohol intake before going on to misdrive into someone he mistook for a road.
- 1857, Thomas Baker, The Steam-engine, Or, The Powers of Flame (page 93)