verb
- past tense and past participle of misrecollect; to remember incorrectly or inaccurately
Usage: formal; often used in academic or legal contexts
Examples
- She misrecollected the date of the meeting and arrived a week late.
- The witness misrecollected several key details from the incident.
- He misrecollected his childhood address when filling out the form.
- They misrecollected the original agreement and had to review the contract.
- The historian noted that the memoir misrecollected events from the 1960s.
- I misrecollected the name of the restaurant we visited last summer.