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misconstruction

noun

Etymology

From mis- + construction.

  1. derived from cōnstructiō
  2. derived from construction
  3. inherited from construccioun
  4. prefixed as misconstruction — “mis + construction”

Definitions

  1. Mistaken or faulty construction

    Mistaken or faulty construction; an instance of it.

    • Our attention has been called to the possibility of misconstruction in our reply given under the above heading in the December issue concerning track circuit through busy stations normally entered at low speeds.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misconstruction. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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