Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To write incorrectly or carelessly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To write incorrectly; make a mistake in writing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To write incorrectly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
write incorrectly.
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Examples
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The House task force had concealed these documents, allowing Hamilton and Hyde to miswrite an important chapter of recent American history.
A Special Report -- The Crazy October Surprise Debunking 2009
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The House task force had concealed these documents, allowing Hamilton and Hyde to miswrite an important chapter of recent American history.
Printing: A Special Report -- The Crazy October Surprise Debunking 2009
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As for ‘grammar lessons’, you constantly mis-spell and miswrite almost everything you say.
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For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, or a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.
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And do not let your boys misread or miswrite them.
An Introduction to the History of Western Europe James Harvey Robinson 1899
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They miswrite the name Saṃkara, giving it the sense of mongrel or dirt and hold that he was an incarnation of a demon called
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896
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[FN#360] i.e. Fairy-born, the {Greek} (Parysatis) of the Greeks which some miswrite {Greek}.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, or a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.
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For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.
Essays — Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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