Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To designate wrongly; miscall; revile.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To call by a wrong name; to miscall.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To call by a wrong name; to
miscall .
Etymologies
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mis- + term
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Senators Richard Lugar and Joseph Biden will discuss the war in Iraq and the upcoming misterm elections.
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Exactly what Benedict XVI means by the misterm is unclear.
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