misrepeat

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misrepeat (third-person singular simple present misrepeats, present participle misrepeating, simple past and past participle misrepeated)

(transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
- 1825-1826, John Winthrop, The History of New England
  The petition was of many sheets of paper, and contained many false accusations, (and among some truths misrepeated,) accusing us to intend rebellion, to have cast off our allegiance, and to be wholly separate from the church and laws of England […]

Anagrams edit

premiates, spare time, spermiate