miswarns

Verb

miswarn (third-person singular simple present miswarns, present participle miswarning, simple past and past participle miswarned)

1. To warn of something that is not a threat; to cry wolf.
   • Our friend, Commander de Champeaux, was not miswarned when he was told by the squaw he claimed as his squaw, 'to look out and not cross Chief Ma-chan-qua's pathway.'1905, Julia M. Baker Stapleford, Wah-see-ola, the Light of the Tribes at the Meeting Waters, page 180