misroutev.
/ˌmɪsˈruːt/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈrut/, /ˌmɪsˈraʊt/ transitive. To send or direct to be sent by a wrong or inappropriate route.
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1912 Middletown (N.Y.) Daily Times-Press 7 Aug. 1/5 It was alleged that certain carload shipments of cement..were misrouted and the company was damaged to the extent of $358.
1945 Q. Rev. Biol. 20 349/1 Nerves with a sufficient number of sensory fibers to be misrouted along with the crossed motor fibers.
1959 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 46 235 Jim's flight to freedom had to be misrouted so that Twain could work in many key episodes that are only incidental to the escape plot.
1969 N.Y. Times 24 June 1/2 A train that had been misrouted to the wrong track attempted to back out.
1986 New Scientist 4 Sept. 32/3 The mechanical switches in a Strowger exchange can misroute calls.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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