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misconfirm

verb

Etymology

From mis- + confirm.

  1. derived from confirmo
  2. derived from confermer
  3. inherited from confirmen
  4. prefixed as misconfirm — “mis + confirm”

Definitions

  1. To confirm in error.

    • Chemicals have been misconfirmed in the past, misidentified, and that has caused a lot of problems.
    • When analysts mistakenly trust their common sense and misconfirm an improbable problem, they fail to exploit heuristics as a last resource.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA