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Meaning of misstate

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

misstate

verb

Definitions

  1. To make a statement that is in error, inadvertently; to say incorrectly, through a slip of the tongue.

    Example: The speaker misstated the year of his grandfather's birth by a hundred years, but it was an honest mistake: how often does one speak of the 1800s?