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

  • transitive verb To time inaccurately or inappropriately; misjudge the timing of.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To time wrongly; say or do inopportunely or out of season.

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

  • transitive verb To time wrongly; not to adapt to the time.

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

  • verb To do at the wrong time; especially to misjudge the timing of coordinated events.

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

  • verb time incorrectly

Etymologies

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mis- +‎ time

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