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misconvert

verb

Etymology

From mis- + convert.

  1. derived from converto — “turn around”
  2. derived from convertir
  3. inherited from converten
  4. prefixed as misconvert — “mis + convert”

Definitions

  1. To convert incorrectly.

    • Of the fifteen station entries in the Cork-London double timetable, Fleming misconverted all five Irish times by making them twenty minutes ahead of Greenwich instead of twenty-five minutes behind[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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