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MISNAME
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they misname ... he / she / it misnames
Past simple: misnamed
Past participle: misnamed
-ing form: misnaming
Sense 1
Meaning:
Assign in incorrect name to
Example:
These misnamed philanthropists
Synonyms:
miscall; misname
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "misname" is one way to...):
call (ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
