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MISSTATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they misstate ... he / she / it misstates
Past simple: misstated
Past participle: misstated
-ing form: misstating
Sense 1
Meaning:
State something incorrectly
Example:
You misstated my position
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "misstate" is one way to...):
say; state; tell (express in words)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
misstatement (a statement that contains a mistake)
