to mistranslate
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5.6
- verb
- /ˌmɪsˈtrænzleɪt/
- The translator admitted that he had mistranslated several important phrases in the document.
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Watch on YouTubeYou cannot mistranslate something that isn't there to begin with.
- You cannot mistranslate something that isn't there to begin with.
- We have to be on guard against getting it wrong and mistranslating it.
- And, and the argument that has emerged is that there is a good likelihood that the data was simply mistranslated as it was being drawn.
Examples
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But after comparing the text to the runes on this Viking shield, I found that one of the letters had been mistranslated.
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The Septuagint scholars mistranslated the Hebrew word for "young woman" into the Greek word for "virgin".
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You cannot mistranslate something that isn't there to begin with.
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There was no chance his words were being mistranslated.
Blog text (28) -
Actually, that verse was mistranslated.
Blog text (2) -
That sentence has been mistranslated as "Even I have lived in Arcadia."
Academic text (1998) -
The word for virgin was mistranslated from Aramaic into into Greek.
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To make that link, every one of these documents was mistranslated into English by INS's translators.
Academic text (2002) -
You are actually quoting very new translations that took a word that was referring to sexual predators and mistranslated it as "homosexual."
Blog text (30) -
You mistranslated; Diracheha Darchei Noam is not 'its ways are ways of justice and morality.'
Blog text (34)
Synonyms
77
4.6
To change facts so they become false or misleading
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7.4
To change facts or stories so they are not true
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8.0
To describe a person or thing unfairly
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8.0
To change a message so people cannot understand it
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5.6
Shown in a false way that gives people the wrong idea
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
Mistranslate is made of the parts mis- meaning 'wrong' and translate, which comes from a root meaning 'to carry across', like in transport. So to mistranslate is to 'carry across' the meaning in the wrong way, which changes or loses what was meant.