misintroduce

verb

1. To name or describe (someone or something) incorrectly when making an introduction; to present (someone or something) by the wrong name or description.

   “The first thing I did was to misintroduce an engineer to somebody else. I never did get all the engineers straightened out — they weren't in L & S.”

   “Archaeology has for years been misintroduced as a treasure-hunting, collecting, object-oriented entertainment. As a result, the public has become so object oriented and its misconceptions about the real business of archaeology are now so twisted by this object orientation, that deprogramming and behavior change teaching are now necessary.”

   “Teachers of Donne's poetry should take notice of the play, not simply because it features a formidable seventeenth-century scholar as its protagonist, but because it misintroduces the Holy Sonnets — and by extension, John Donne to audiences who might not have been familiar with them.”

   “If you misintroduce someone, you could try saying something like, 'I apologize....He/she is Mr/Ms Thakur'. Remember that it is better to misintroduce someone than not to introduce at all.”

2. To insert (something) incorrectly to a system or environment; to insert (something) that does not belong there or to insert it in the wrong way.

   “Bedrnik ( 1970a ) obtained greater development of E . tenella merozoites after using inocula containing “misintroduced" cells from the cecum of chickens.”

   “Thus, if they are misintroduced during specimen preparation, misinterpretation will result.”

   “There was no information on whether the catheter was misintroduced during cannulation or displaced in the course of nursing care, due to its poor fixation [13].”