misdirect
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++mis·di·rect /ˌmɪsdəˈrekt, -daɪ-/ verb [transitive] 1 formalUSE something to use your effort, energy, abilities etc on doing the wrong thing 误用，错用 〔精力、能力等〕，使用…不当 Without well-defined goals, it is likely that efforts will be misdirected. 没有明确的目标，努力很可能白费。 Their criticism is misdirected. 他们批错了对象。2. SCTif a judge misdirects a jury (=the group of people who decide a legal case), he or she gives them incorrect information about the law 〔法官〕对〔陪审团〕作错误引导3 formalWAY/ROUTE to send someone or something to the wrong place 把…送错地方be misdirected to something Our mail was misdirected to the wrong street. 我们的邮件被送错了街道。n Grammar Misdirect is usually passive. —misdirection /-ˈrekʃən/ noun [uncountable]→ See Verb table
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misdirect• I suggest his outrage is misdirected.• Such efforts are, we believe, misdirected.• You have the gift of a sense of humour, but with you it's misdirected.• Wyche's ideas may be misdirected at times but we need people like him.• From Lovell's Marxist perspective the feminist debates outlined above are misdirected for a variety of reasons.• Their essential feature is that they misdirect the enemy's attack, so that it fails to damage any vital organs.• His conviction was quashed on appeal in 1994 on the grounds that the trial judge misdirected the jury.• I'd hoped the shock would, at the very least, cause her to misdirect the stream and wet her shoes.• It is an anger they misdirect toward Los Angeles, or poor people, or immigrants.mis·di·rect verb →n GRAMMAR1LDOCE OnlineChineseSyllable
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misdirect
mis‧di‧rect /ˌmɪsdəˈrekt, ˌmɪsdɪˈrekt, -daɪ-/
verb [transitive usually in passive]
1. formal to use your effort, energy, abilities etc on doing the wrong thing:
Without well-defined goals, it is likely that efforts will be misdirected.
Their criticism is misdirected.
2. if a judge misdirects a jury (=the group of people who decide a legal case), he or she gives them incorrect information about the law
3. formal to send someone or something to the wrong place
misdirect somebody/something to something
Our mail was misdirected to the wrong street.
—misdirection /-ˈrekʃən/ noun [uncountable]
mis‧di‧rect /ˌmɪsdəˈrekt, ˌmɪsdɪˈrekt, -daɪ-/
verb [transitive usually in passive]1. formal to use your effort, energy, abilities etc on doing the wrong thing:
2. if a judge misdirects a jury (=the group of people who decide a legal case), he or she gives them incorrect information about the law
3. formal to send someone or something to the wrong place
misdirect somebody/something to something
—misdirection /-ˈrekʃən/ noun [uncountable]