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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To state wrongly or falsely.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To state wrongly; make an erroneous representation of: as, to misstate a question in debate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To state wrongly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To make a statement that is in error, to say incorrectly, have a slip of the tongue. Implies an unintentional error in speaking rather than an intentional lie.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb state something incorrectly

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