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to misremember

to misremember

6 6.7
Think past events happened differently than they did
  • verb
  • /ˌmɪs.rɪˈmɛm.bɚ/
translation icon : recordar mal
  • My mistake, I misremembered that there was a 9.0 in the 19th century.

That way we're both on the same page with doing the deal and as time passes, nobody forgets or misremembers what we actually said.

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Examples

  • And of course, I might be misremembering everything about this episode.

    Academic text (2007)
  • She always seems to misremember the details of our conversation.

  • - I told you this once before, did you misremember?

  • So if I get, I will make mistakes and I will get certain things wrong and I'll misremember certain stuff.

  • And maybe I am misremembering what the name of the thing I got was?

    Blog text (24)
  • Maybe I misremembered the ad.

  • That way we're both on the same page with doing the deal and as time passes, nobody forgets or misremembers what we actually said.

  • I'm going to go back and reread the original article because I must be misremembering what it implied.

    Blog text (17)
  • Maybe I'm misremembering my Stat 101 class, but I'm pretty sure this is wrong.

    Blog text (12)
  • I've misremembered my slot in the order, so that when it comes around my teammates all shout, "Syd! Syd!"

    Fiction book (1994)

How Accurate

to remember
1.0
to misremember
6 6.7
to forget
1.0

Surface Forms

misremember infinitive
misremembered past participle
misremembering present participle
misremembers third person singular

Morphology

misremember = remember (transparent) = mis + remember

Formed by the productive prefix 'mis-' (meaning 'wrongly') + 'remember', so the meaning 'to remember incorrectly' is directly and predictably derived.

Etymology

Misremember is made of mis- meaning 'wrong' and remember, so it literally means 'to remember wrongly'. You can see the same mis- in mistake and misunderstand, which helps you remember that misremember means to remember something wrongly.