Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To misdirect; mislead.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Indirect.
  • transitive verb obsolete To misdirect; to mislead.

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  • adjective Not direct.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ direct

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Examples

  • But more devilish in their design, who make false fires to undirect seamen in a tempest, that thereby from the right road they may be misled into danger and destruction.

    Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863

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