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Definition of "misdate" []

  • To date (a document or event, for example) inaccurately. (verb-transitive)
  • An inaccurate date. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "misdate" in a sentence
  • "If the last X number of years is missing, it would be possible to misdate the core by shifting it to the right in the plot above."
  • "Some companies engaged in a systematic effort to misdate options and hide the expense from investors."
  • "That Lenz should misdate Beethoven's visit to Berlin is not strange; that Marx, a Berliner, should, is."