mis‧di‧rect /ˌmɪsdəˈrekt, ˌmɪsdɪˈrekt, -daɪ-/ verb [transitive usually in passive]

1. formal to use your effort, energy, abilities etc on doing the wrong thing:
Without well-defined goals, it is likely that efforts will be misdirected.
Their criticism is misdirected.

2. if a judge misdirects a jury (=the group of people who decide a legal case), he or she gives them incorrect information about the law

3. formal to send someone or something to the wrong place
misdirect somebody/something to something
Our mail was misdirected to the wrong street.
—misdirection /-ˈrekʃən/ noun [uncountable]

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲