missummarize
missummarize verb: to summarize incorrectly; to give an inaccurate summary.
Verb
missummarize (third-person singular simple present missummarizes, present participle missummarizing, simple past and past participle missummarized)
- To summarize incorrectly; to give an inaccurate summary.
- But he missummarizes the historical events themselves, imagines the entire tale as a tour de force in the amalgamation of historical materials, and concludes that this "Paradise Lost in provincial miniature" has been arranged to tell us that "neither a whipping post nor a maypole can stand for the...1984, Michael J. Colacurcio, The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales, page 603
- In my judgment Conrad and Weinberg missummarize media discourse about genetics as much as they accuse the press of doing , and in ways similar to the press ( though with reversed valence ), with regard to the summarizing of scientific discourse.1999, Celeste Michelle Condit, The Meanings of the Gene: Public Debates about Human Heredity, page 294
Forms of missummarize
| third-person singular present | missummarizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | missummarizing |
| past participle | missummarized |
| past | missummarized |
| alternative form | missummarise |
Origin of missummarize
From mis- + summarize.
Questions about missummarize
- What does missummarize mean?
- Missummarize means to summarize incorrectly; to give an inaccurate summary.
- What part of speech is missummarize?
- Missummarize is a verb.
- What is the past tense of missummarize?
- The past tense of missummarize is missummarized.
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