misremember

[mis-ri-mem-ber]

verb (used with or without object)

1. to remember incorrectly.

2. to fail to remember; forget.

Word History and Origins

Origin of misremember¹

First recorded in 1525–35; mis- ¹ + remember

Example Sentences

Mr. Pawar took it back a few days later, saying he had misremembered.

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And it was one of the best things I ever did, though I realized when I take them both out, they each would misremember things and then end up correcting each other.

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What we tend to do is to misremember the length, based on the bar's size, recalling longer bars as shorter and shorter bars as longer.

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The data gathered in this way can be inaccurate and incomplete because patients might misremember details or tailor their responses to social expectations.

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Unsurprisingly, it all began and ended with noir, a style of writing Los Angeles more or less invented, going back to Raymond Chandler and the woefully misremembered Paul Cain.

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