misdrove

Verb

misdrive (third-person singular simple present misdrives, present participle misdriving, simple past misdrove, past participle misdriven)

1. (ambitransitive, rare) To drive badly or wrongly.
   • Nightly it blazed, and waved its fiery tail,
     And made the dreaded Ursa Major quail;
     Destined but once before her fear to prove,
     When Phaeton the Solar car misdrove.1857, Thomas Baker, The Steam-engine, Or, The Powers of Flame, page 93