misrecall

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Etymology[edit]

mis- +‎ recall

Verb[edit]

misrecall (third-person singular simple present misrecalls, present participle misrecalling, simple past and past participle misrecalled)

  1. (transitive) To recall incorrectly.
    • 2009 August 2, Jack Rosenthal, “A Terrible Thing to Waste”, in New York Times[1]:
      That was the same slogan that Vice President Dan Quayle famously misrecalled in 1989 when he said, “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind.”

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