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misdrive en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + drive.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, rare) To drive badly or wrongly.
   • 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. 1857, Thomas Baker, The Steam-engine, Or, The Powers of Flame, page 93:
   • 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. 2009, Armando Iannucci, The Audacity of Hype:

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