to mistime
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- verb
- /ˌmɪsˈtaɪm/
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sincronizar mal
- If you mistime your move in the game, you might miss your chance to win.
Examples
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It looks like Nelson mistimes his jump and ends up launching from the wrong foot too late.
Blog text (27) -
There is little risk in slightly mistiming the bottom of a market.
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Stragglers are mistiming the course change.
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I mistimed my somersault dive.
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He mistimed a number of jumps, but at least he's still got some hops.
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My visit to Ireland was tragically mistimed: two weeks after Bloomsday 99, a year before the Centenary.
Academic text (2004) -
The defense for the Wildcats appeared to be in good position as D.J. Howard and Nick Addison had a beat on the ball, but a mistimed jump allowed Hazel to bring in the pass for the score.
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FIU fifth-year senior linebacker Winston Fraser positioned himself for the knockdown, but mistimed his leap.
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Many athletes mistime their jumps in the high jump competition and fail to clear the bar.
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He mistimed his speech delivery, speaking too soon before the audience was seated.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
mistime = time (transparent) = mis + time
The meaning is directly built from the productive prefix 'mis-' meaning 'wrongly' plus the verb 'time', so learners can infer 'do something at the wrong time'.
Etymology
Mistime is made of the parts mis- meaning 'wrong' and time meaning 'when', like the mis- in mistake. So, to mistime something is to do it at the 'wrong' moment or with the wrong timing.