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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

misnarrate en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + narrate.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To narrate incorrectly.
    • Was it kindness to misrepresent his dying words and misnarrate the details of his funeral? 1851 August, Salignus, “The Late Rev. Professor Street”, in The Benares Magazine, volume 6, number 28, page 658:
    • Krapp can see only the fool he was, not the fool he is; all his versions misperceive and misnarrate themselves. 2007, Alan W. Friedman, Party Pieces, page 131:
    • So too churches can misnarrate their story by inappropriate comparisons or a fixation on the wrong criteria for success. 2014, Emma Percy, What Clergy Do: Especially when it looks like nothing:

Forms

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misnarrates Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
misnarrated Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
misnarrated Tense=Past lexicographic
misnarrating Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic