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misrecounting

misrecounting is the present participle and gerund of misrecount.

Meaning of misrecount

Verb

misrecount (third-person singular simple present misrecounts, present participle misrecounting, simple past and past participle misrecounted)

  1. To recount inaccurately; misrelate; to tell an untrue version of events.
    • I write, without a particle of feeling against Mr. Lillie, for I know him to be altogether friendly to my late colleague and myself, and even while inadvertently misrecounting her history, he writes of her in a most reverential tone.1895, Edward Maitland, “An Explanation By Mr. E. Maitland”, in William Thomas Stead, editor, Borderland: A Quarterly Review and Index, volume 2, page 178

Questions about misrecounting

What is misrecounting the present participle and gerund of?
Misrecounting is the present participle and gerund of misrecount.

Words near misrecounting in the dictionary

  1. misrecorded
  2. misrecording
  3. misrecords
  4. misrecount
  5. misrecounted
  6. misrecounting
  7. misrecounts
  8. misrecover
  9. misrecovered
  10. misrecoveries
  11. misrecovering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misrecounting (page history and authors); misrecount (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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