misstate

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Etymology

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From mis- +‎ state.

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

  1. (transitive) To make a statement that is in error, inadvertently; to say (something) incorrectly, through a slip of the tongue.
    Coordinate term: miscalculate (accounting)
    Near-synonym: misreport
    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.

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