Synonyms of the word

misdirect

• v. To direct something wrongly.
• v. To put the incorrect address on a mail item.

address

• n. Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.
• n. Act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech.
• n. Manner of speaking to another; delivery.
• n. Attention in the way one addresses a lady.
• n. Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.
• n. (obsolete) Act of preparing oneself.
• n. A description of the location of a property.
• n. (by extension) The property itself.
• n. (computing) A location in computer memory.
• n. (Internet) An Internet address; URL.
• n. An email address.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To prepare oneself.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To direct speech.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To aim; to direct.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To prepare or make ready.
• v. (transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
• v. (reflexive) To direct one’s remarks (to someone).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To clothe or array; to dress.
• v. (transitive) To direct, as words, to (anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. to (any…
• v. (transitive) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by…
• v. (transitive) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.
• v. (transitive) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
• v. (transitive) To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.
• v. (transitive) To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech…
• v. (transitive, formal) To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To refer a location in computer memory.
• v. (golf, transitive) To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

conduct

• n. The act or method of controlling or directing.
• n. Skillful guidance or management; generalship.
• n. The manner of guiding or carrying oneself; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.
• n. (of a literary work) Plot; action; construction; manner of development.
• n. (obsolete) Convoy; escort; guard; guide.
• n. That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To lead, or guide; to escort.
• v. (transitive) To lead; to direct; to manage.
• v. (transitive) (reflexively to conduct oneself) To behave.
• v. (transitive) To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit (heat, light, electricity, etc.).
• v. (transitive, music) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
• v. (transitive) To carry out (something organized).

corrupt

• adj. In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
• adj. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
• adj. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
• v. (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave;…
• v. (intransitive) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
• v. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
• v. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

debase

• v. (transitive) To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To lower in position or rank.
• v. (transitive) To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.

debauch

• n. An individual act of debauchery.
• n. An orgy.
• v. (transitive) To morally corrupt (someone); to seduce.
• v. (transitive) To debase (something); to lower the value of (something).

demoralise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of demoralize.

demoralize

• v. (American) To destroy morale; to dishearten.

deprave

• v. (transitive) To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.
• v. (transitive) To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt.

direct

• adj. Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
• adj. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
• adj. Straightforward; sincere.
• adj. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
• adj. In the line of descent; not collateral.
• adj. (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the…
• adj. (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes…
• adj. (aviation, travel) having a single flight number.
• adv. Directly.
• v. To manage, control, steer.
• v. To aim (something) at (something else).
• v. To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
• v. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
• v. (dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom…

guide

• n. Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer…
• n. A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
• n. A sign that guides people; guidepost.
• n. Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
• n. A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
• n. (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
• n. (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for…
• v. to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
• v. to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
• v. to exert control or influence over someone or something.
• v. to supervise the education or training of someone.
• v. (intransitive) to act as a guide.

lead

• n. (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnishe…
• n. (countable) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at seaor (dated) to estimate…
• n. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
• n. (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
• n. Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
• n. (plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
• n. (countable) A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.
• n. (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
• v. (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
• v. (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
• v. (heading, transitive) To guide or conduct.
• v. (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing…
• v. (heading) To begin, to be ahead.
• v. (transitive) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice;…
• v. (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
• v. To produce (with to).
• v. Misspelling of led.
• n. (uncountable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course.
• n. (uncountable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead…
• n. (countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
• n. (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
• n. (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit,…
• n. (acting) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
• n. (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
• n. (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
• n. (countable, mining) A lode.
• n. (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
• n. A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash.
• n. In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release…
• n. Charging lead.
• n. (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
• n. (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
• n. Hypothesis that has not been pursued.
• n. Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details…
• n. (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
• n. Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more…
• n. (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
• n. (newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why…
• n. An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast.
• n. (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times…
• n. (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
• n. (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
• n. (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance…
• n. (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound…
• n. (electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter…
• n. (electrical) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive…
• adj. (not comparable) Foremost.
• adj. (music) main, principal.
• v. Misspelling of led.

misaddress

• v. (transitive) To address (a letter, etc.) incorrectly.

misguide

• v. To guide poorly or incorrectly.

mislead

• v. (literally) To lead astray, in a false direction.
• v. To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.
• v. To deceptively trick into something wrong.
• v. To accidentally or intentionally confuse.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

pervert

• n. (dated) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense…
• n. A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.
• v. (transitive) To turn another way; to divert.
• v. (transitive) To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to…
• v. To misapply; to misinterpret designedly.
• v. (intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

profane

• adj. Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
• adj. Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
• adj. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
• adj. Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain.
• n. A person or thing that is profane.
• n. (freemasonry) A person not a Mason.
• v. (transitive) To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to…
• v. (transitive) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

subvert

• v. (transitive) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
• v. (transitive) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
• v. (transitive) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
• n. An advertisement created by subvertising.

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

vitiate

• v. (transitive) to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
• v. (transitive) to debase or morally corrupt.
• v. (transitive, archaic) to violate, to rape.
• v. (transitive) to make something ineffective, to invalidate.