(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
If resources or efforts are ~ed, they are used in the wrong way or for the wrong purposes.
Many of the aid projects in the developing world have been ~ed in the past.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed
~ed
...a ~ed effort to mollify the bishop.
ADJ
2.
If you ~ someone, you send them in the wrong direction.
He had deliberately ~ed the reporters.
VERB: V n