Home › Words › M › misenforcemisenforcemisenforce means to enforce incorrectly.EtymologyFrom mis- + enforce.verbTo enforce incorrectly.e.g.“But exactly in proportion to his lofty estimate of law, when thus enforced and applied, he is indignant and jealous at any attempt to wrest or misenforce it:” — 1864, Samuel Neil, “Forensic Eloquence”, in The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, page 330:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.misenrol 68% match — To enrol incorrectly. vs misenforce →misimplement 66% match — To implement incorrectly or poorly vs misenforce →misinflect 64% match — To inflect incorrectly. vs misenforce →misstress 64% match — To stress incorrectly. vs misenforce →misexecute 63% match — To execute or carry out improperly. vs misenforce →misengineer 62% match — To engineer badly or wrongly. vs misenforce →misengrave 62% match — To engrave incorrectly. vs misenforce →misinstruct 62% match — To instruct badly or wrongly. vs misenforce →