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misremember

American

[mis-ri-mem-ber] / ˌmɪs rɪˈmɛm bər /

verb (used with or without object)

to remember incorrectly.
to fail to remember; forget.

Etymology

Origin of misremember

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

Example Sentences

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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.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2024

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.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024

Self-reported data can sometimes be unreliable because people may misremember, potentially exaggerating or downplaying their experience.

From Scientific American • Oct. 25, 2023

People sometimes use poor reasoning, misremember, or even lie.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

At first I think I must have misremembered it, but how could I misremember a sound I'd heard one hundred, two hundred, five hundred times in my life?

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

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