Home › Words › M › misexpandmisexpandmisexpand means to give a false full form of (an abbreviation or acronym).EtymologyFrom mis- + expand.verbTo give a false full form of (an abbreviation or acronym)Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.misexpound 69% match — To expound erroneously; to misexplain vs misexpand →misexplicate 69% match — To explicate incorrectly. vs misexpand →misextend 67% match — To extend wrongly. vs misexpand →misspell 61% match — To spell incorrectly. vs misexpand →misexploit 60% match — To exploit wrongly. vs misexpand →misprovide 60% match — To provide badly or wrongly. vs misexpand →mismap 59% match — To map incorrectly. vs misexpand →misspecify 59% match — To specify wrongly. vs misexpand →