misreflect

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To mirror inaccurately

   To mirror inaccurately; to reflect a distorted image of.

   • To the censorious world, who like false glasses Mingling their own irregular figures, Misreflect the object, I fhall appear Some finful woman, sold to infamy.
   • I could see no more of her face that the sharp bridge of her nose. Except what I caught misreflected in the hair dryer – her enlarged ear.
2. 2

   To present an inaccurate description of

   To present an inaccurate description of; to give an inaccurate impression of.

   • Lest this record misreflect what the testimony was, I understood that the witness was talking in that percentage about failures, which would of course include dialing errors.
   • The final sentence of the policy statement appears also to misreflect the emphasis of the Act.
   • In cardiovascular crises acute fast phenomena frequently dominate the issues of outcome; as a consequence, clinical manifestations often lag seriously behind and tend to misreflect the actual underlying pathophysiology.
3. 3

   To think about in a distorted way

   • The gist of this horribly repugnant scene is that a person can be forced, because of the threat of unbearable pain, to misreflect upon his perceptions.

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