misabsorb

Verb

misabsorb (third-person singular simple present misabsorbs, present participle misabsorbing, simple past and past participle misabsorbed)

1. To absorb wrongly.
   • Not surprisingly, some of the most influential of these interpreters—including Aiken, Van Wyck Brooks, Edmund Wilson, and Kenneth Burke—have operated outside the academy, for within that establishment Freud and his followers have frequently met the fate of other radical innovators: ignored or...1976, Albert E Stone, “Psychoanalysis and American Literary Culture”, in American Quarterly, volume 28, number 3, page 310
   • A good majority of personality issues comes from aberrant experiences that are misabsorbed in one's psyche, leading to a lack of self-awareness and to self-doubt.2011, Dr. Eric Z. Shapira, A New Wrinkle: What I Learned from Older People Who Never Acted Their Age, page 22