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misrecounts

misrecounts is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 misrecounts

What is misrecounts the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Misrecounts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misrecount.

Words near misrecounts in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misrecounts (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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