MISIDENTIFY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they misidentify ... he / she / it misidentifies

Past simple: misidentified

Past participle: misidentified

-ing form: misidentifying

Meaning:

Identify incorrectly

Example:

Don't mistake her for her twin sister

Synonyms:

misidentify; mistake

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "misidentify" is one way to...):

identify (consider to be equal or the same)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "misidentify"):

confound; confuse (mistake one thing for another)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody