misdate


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mis·date

 (mĭs-dāt′)
tr.v. mis·dat·ed, mis·dat·ing, mis·dates
To date (a document or event, for example) inaccurately.
n.
An inaccurate date.
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misdate

(mɪsˈdeɪt)
vb
(tr) to date (a letter, event, etc) wrongly
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mis•date

(mɪsˈdeɪt)

v. -dat•ed, -dat•ing,
n. v.t.
1. to assign or affix a wrong date to.
n.
2. a wrong date.
[1580–90]
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misdate


Past participle: misdated
Gerund: misdating

Imperative
misdate
misdate
Present
I misdate
you misdate
he/she/it misdates
we misdate
you misdate
they misdate
Preterite
I misdated
you misdated
he/she/it misdated
we misdated
you misdated
they misdated
Present Continuous
I am misdating
you are misdating
he/she/it is misdating
we are misdating
you are misdating
they are misdating
Present Perfect
I have misdated
you have misdated
he/she/it has misdated
we have misdated
you have misdated
they have misdated
Past Continuous
I was misdating
you were misdating
he/she/it was misdating
we were misdating
you were misdating
they were misdating
Past Perfect
I had misdated
you had misdated
he/she/it had misdated
we had misdated
you had misdated
they had misdated
Future
I will misdate
you will misdate
he/she/it will misdate
we will misdate
you will misdate
they will misdate
Future Perfect
I will have misdated
you will have misdated
he/she/it will have misdated
we will have misdated
you will have misdated
they will have misdated
Future Continuous
I will be misdating
you will be misdating
he/she/it will be misdating
we will be misdating
you will be misdating
they will be misdating
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been misdating
you have been misdating
he/she/it has been misdating
we have been misdating
you have been misdating
they have been misdating
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been misdating
you will have been misdating
he/she/it will have been misdating
we will have been misdating
you will have been misdating
they will have been misdating
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been misdating
you had been misdating
he/she/it had been misdating
we had been misdating
you had been misdating
they had been misdating
Conditional
I would misdate
you would misdate
he/she/it would misdate
we would misdate
you would misdate
they would misdate
Past Conditional
I would have misdated
you would have misdated
he/she/it would have misdated
we would have misdated
you would have misdated
they would have misdated
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.misdate - assign the wrong date tomisdate - assign the wrong date to    
date - assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of; "Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings"
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Translations

misdate

vt letterfalsch datieren
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Similarly, women who misdate their pregnancy and are too far along to effectively use misoprostol run the risk of incomplete abortion, which will require additional care.
Second, statistical reference sources (resources that scholars from a variety of disciplines rely upon) misdate and, as with the U.S.
The calendrical gap can also confuse us by allowing the unwary to misdate events.
Further, another supervisor had previously checked the form and had not noted the misdate as an error.
The authors misdate by six years America's diplomatic recognition of the U.S.S.R.; while Admiral Horthy, here described as Lutheran, was actually (like most Hungarian Protestants) Calvinist.
To say that only one kind of film will attract or will have the possibility of having violence associated with it is to misdate it considerably.
Add a substantial sprinkling of factual errors (he even manages to misdate the 1832 Reform Act) and you have a book to distress any historian - a historian who is a schoolteacher perhaps most of all.
There are notes elucidating this on page 345f., but they misname the unfortunate Butts (Henry, not William) and misdate him as Master of Corpus (Patrick Bury's history of the college, revised for the Internet in 1997, has him as Master from 1626-32, in his second term as Vice-Chancellor).
(Bordo misdates her announcement to April 12.) Clinton's chief speechwriter, Dan Schwerin, was riding the tram to the announcement location on Roosevelt Island in Manhattan, still tapping final changes into the speech.
She mentions this crucial distinction once, but misdates its origin to the "High Middle Ages" when it can already be found in Gregory the Great (21).
2013), although this source misdates Poivre's introduction of the date palm to 'the end of the 18th century'.
2, though unfortunately he omits both Journes and Scheckner and misdates Schwab.