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MISIDENTIFY
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they misidentify ... he / she / it misidentifies
Past simple: misidentified
Past participle: misidentified
-ing form: misidentifying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Identify incorrectly
Example:
Don't mistake her for her twin sister
Synonyms:
misidentify; mistake
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "misidentify" is one way to...):
identify (consider to be equal or the same)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "misidentify"):
confound; confuse (mistake one thing for another)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
