Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To remember incorrectly.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To mistake in recalling to mind; err by failure of memory.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly.

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  • verb To remember incorrectly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb remember incorrectly

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Examples

  • Aside from "misremember" - ing the fact that he did not win the U.S.

    Rachel Maddow: Mark Kirk 'Has Made Up An Amazing Array Of Stuff' (VIDEO) 2010

  • "misremember," jumble, and confuse the whole allegory, but he so misapprehended its meaning in many points, that the lessons taught and the morals drawn were very wide of the mark indeed.

    The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers 1859

  • The painting has two titles, The Racetrack and Death on a Pale Horse, but I always misremember it as Death, the Rider.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • It is part of the human activity of storytelling to retell, misremember, breakup and tell backwards, peek into the crannies and tell the other stories (thank you Euripides), wonder what might have been, what could be, and tell the same stories over and over, but tell them slant.

    Fan the Flames yuki_onna 2010

  • Gordon (@24) I stand corrcted, I do apparently misremember, though I think this line from Friedman pertinent to the point.

    Matthew Yglesias » Friedman to Palestinians: Suck on This 2009

  • Of course, it's been a long time since I read SGTR, so maybe I misremember.

    Enron, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The painting has two titles, The Racetrack and Death on a Pale Horse, but I always misremember it as Death, the Rider.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • I'm likely to misremember that time of my life, because, ultimately, I crashed and got badly burnt, metaphorically speaking.

    In the nude Marcus Speh 2011

  • Well before 100, he will misremember Rod as Ron, but will then mistype it as Rod.

    Matthew Yglesias » Blago’s Metaphor 2009

  • The only sizable store of books in English was the American Book Center, a faintly indecent basement establishment mainly stocked, unless I misremember, with Mad comics and X-rated-looking publications.

    Touched by Evil Joseph O'Neil 2009

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