missolve

present singular third person missolves · participle present missolving · participle past missolved · past missolved

1. To solve incorrectly; to arrive at the wrong solution.

   Should the machine missolve or fail to solve the first, the second is doomed.

   1994, Christof Koch, Joel L. Davis, Large-scale Neuronal Theories of the Brain, page 50

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   For example, Mestre (1988) presented a detailed analysis of how Hispanic college students missolve the students-and-professor problem.

   2013, Lorna Idol, Beau Fly Jones, Educational Values and Cognitive Instruction, page 316

   But like Oedipus and Croesus before him, Macbeth missolves the riddles from the future, charging into doom.

   2022, Angus Fletcher, Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories, page 87