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How to pronounce misidentify in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms mistake
Type of identify
Has types confound, confuse

Examples of misidentify

misidentify
Swans are huge, all white birds, that seem impossible to misidentify.
From the post-gazette.com
The caption two below this one may misidentify the scene depicted, according to Carol Lewine.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Ms. Mallin said she doesn't know whether racial differences caused her to misidentify Mr. Cole.
From the dallasnews.com
That would be to misidentify the aggrieved party in this case.
From the economist.com
The range of color variation makes it possible to misidentify the species with others whose color overlaps.
From the en.wikipedia.org
This led him to misidentify a leopard as a giraffe.
From the newscientist.com
They no doubt will never misidentify the coach of the Nashville Predators again, though maybe not for reasons that Trotz would love.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Auction houses, too busy or too small to be great experts on everything, occasionally misidentify objects offered by uninformed heirs.
From the economist.com
Nazario's own research has shown that popular antivirus software packages can miss or misidentify 20 to 49% of these viruses.
From the newscientist.com
More examples
  • Mistake: identify incorrectly; "Don't mistake her for her twin sister"
  • (Misidentification) A citation of a name in the literature that used the incorrect name because the specimens were improperly determined.
  • (Misidentification) A perpetrator uses the standard Certificate Authority Enrollment process but manages the to trick the Certificate Authority or Registration Authority into thinking they are somebody they are not and gets a Counterfeit Certificate issued.