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misutter en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + utter.

Meanings

1. To utter incorrectly; to garble.
   • And this Spirit of Fire does not misutter our prayers to those whom we worship. 1979, Elisabeth Tooker, Native North American Spirituality of the Eastern Woodlands, page 194:
   • It won't be my mouth that burns if I misutter the Words. 2022, D. T. Kane, The Acktus Trials:
   • And if any mishear or misutter it, even that also serves, since it warns. 1883, Meeds Tuthill, The Civil Polity of the United States Considered in Its Theory and Practice, page 240:

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