Meanings
verbmisdiscover (third-person singular simple present misdiscovers, present participle misdiscovering, simple past and past participle misdiscovered)
present singular third person misdiscovers · participle present misdiscovering · participle past misdiscovered · past misdiscovered
- raretransitiveTo discover in a wrong or unacceptable way.
And when we are not leaving the original in-dwellers out of our stories of "peopling" the continent and developing "the" American population, we have been misdiscovering, misnaming, and misunderstanding them.
1987, Calvin Martin, The American Indian and the problem of history
Origin
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APA
misdiscover. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misdiscover
MLA
“misdiscover.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misdiscover. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misdiscover,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misdiscover.
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