misstate

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ state.

Verb

misstate (third-person singular simple present misstates, present participle misstating, simple past and past participle misstated)

1. 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

to make a statement that is wrong

• Maori: aweke

Anagrams

• etatisms, mistaste