misconstruct

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ construct

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˌmɪskənˈstɹʌkt/

Verb

misconstruct (third-person singular simple present misconstructs, present participle misconstructing, simple past and past participle misconstructed)

  1. To construct wrongly.
  2. To construe or interpret erroneously.

Synonyms

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “misconstruct”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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