misforward

present singular third person misforwards · participle present misforwarding · participle past misforwarded · past misforwarded

1. To forward to the wrong destination.

   I have just come back to Wales to live, and letters have been misforwarded.

   1985, Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris, The Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas, page 705

   4 more examples

   He never failed to be considerate for the feelings of all about him, even when all his telegrams and messages had been misdelivered or misforwarded, and the boys always listened to what he had to say with the greatest respect; and he knew Evelyn must be exasperated to a degree to speak in such a tone.

   1889, Geoffrey Drage, Cyril: A Romantic Novel, page 283

   Confusion follows and shipments intended for consignees in one town are frequently misforwarded to those in the other.

   1927, The Express Messenger - Volumes 10-11, page 16

   We also discuss the faults to which the intermediate systems that execute these concatenation tasks are liable; the consequences of such faults include end-to-end PDUs being misforwarded, proliferating without limit, or simply disappearing into “black holes.”

   2000, Philippe Byrnes, Protocol Management in Computer Networking, page 376

   They could also end up being misforwarded by an incorrectly configured router.

   2003, Panos C. Lekkas, Network Processors: Architectures, Protocols and Platforms, page 11