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English
Etymology
From mis- + state.
Verb
misstate (third-person singular simple present misstates, present participle misstating, simple past and past participle misstated)
- (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, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-09-07, Asia Pacific: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
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