miscount
verb (used with or without object)
to count or calculate erroneously.
have miscounted
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present perfectof miscount.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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In Northampton, “the county’s new voting machines appear to have miscounted the results” in a three-way local judicial race, the Allentown Morning Call reported in its Wednesday print edition.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2019
They have jokes about sponge counts: never any left in, but nurses have miscounted upon occasion.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Can it be," he asked absently, "that I have miscounted?"
From The Last Straw by Harold Titus
"Reckon again, child," says her father, very deliberately; "perhaps you have miscounted."
From The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett
