missolve
verbEtymology From mis- + solve.
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To solve incorrectly; to arrive at the wrong solution.
- Should the machine missolve or fail to solve the first, the second is doomed.1994, Christof Koch, Joel L. Davis, Large-scale Neuronal Theories of the Brain, page 50:
- For example, Mestre (1988) presented a detailed analysis of how Hispanic college students missolve the students-and-professor problem.2013, Lorna Idol, Beau Fly Jones, Educational Values and Cognitive Instruction, page 316:
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- But like Oedipus and Croesus before him, Macbeth missolves the riddles from the future, charging into doom.2022, Angus Fletcher, Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories, page 87: