mismemorize
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]mismemorize (third-person singular simple present mismemorizes, present participle mismemorizing, simple past and past participle mismemorized)
- To memorize inaccurately.
- 1999, Michele M. Solis, Influences of Song Experience on the Development of Selectivity in the Zebra Finch Forebrain, page 40:
- For example, if a bird mismemorizes the tutor song, and produces a perfect copy of its inaccurate template, then BOS itself could be a closer approximation of the template than tutor song.
- 2013, Douglas K. Brumbaugh, Teaching Middle School Mathematics, page 306:
- The student might have mismemorized the steps of the algorithm.
- 2019, Qiu Hu, Feng Shui Master in Metropolis: Volume 5:
- If one were to mismemorize the text, at most, they would be laughed at by others.