missolve

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ solve

Verb

missolve (third-person singular simple present missolves, present participle missolving, simple past and past participle missolved)

1. To solve incorrectly; to arrive at the wrong solution.
   • 1994, Christof Koch, Joel L. Davis, Large-scale Neuronal Theories of the Brain, page 50:

     Should the machine missolve or fail to solve the first, the second is doomed.

   • 2013, Lorna Idol, Beau Fly Jones, Educational Values and Cognitive Instruction, page 316:

     For example, Mestre (1988) presented a detailed analysis of how Hispanic college students missolve the students-and-professor problem.

   • 2022, Angus Fletcher, Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories, page 87:

     But like Oedipus and Croesus before him, Macbeth missolves the riddles from the future, charging into doom.