misrepeat

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English

Etymology

mis- +‎ repeat

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
    • John Winthrop
      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 []

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