misdirect

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mis·di·rect /ˌmɪsdəˈrekt, -daɪ-/ verb [transitiveT]

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 [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

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 GRAMMAR1

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