verb
- to analyze or interpret (text, code, or language) incorrectly
Usage: computing; linguistics
Examples
- The compiler misparsed the syntax and threw an error.
- Students often misparse complex sentences when learning grammar.
- The natural language processor misparsed the ambiguous phrase.
- If you misparse the XML file, the data won’t load properly.
- The algorithm tends to misparse sentences with unusual word order.
- Beginners frequently misparse code when the brackets don’t match.