misstate
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Etymology edit
Verb edit
misstate (third-person singular simple present misstates, present participle misstating, simple past and past participle misstated)
- To make a statement that is in error, inadvertently; to say incorrectly, through a slip of the tongue.
- The speaker misstated the year of his grandfather's birth by a hundred years, but it was an honest mistake: how often does one speak of the 1800s?
- 2017 August 21 [2017 August 18], Kiki Zhao, “A Chinese Poet’s Unusual Path From Isolated Farm Life to Celebrity”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-09-07, Asia Pacific[2]:
- Correction: August 21, 2017
An earlier version of this article misstated the location of Wuhan. It is in Hubei Province, not Hebei.
Translations edit
to make a statement that is wrong
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