Definition of "mistranslate" [mis•trans•late]

• To translate incorrectly. (verb-transitive)

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.

• "The phrase, which we mistranslate from the Portuguese, was first used by Brazilian players, who actually said they wanted to play beautifully, with lethal grace and twirling exhibitionism."
• "She said I had to allow her to review all the footage I shot, claiming that this would ensure that I not mistranslate words she used like kibbush, a Hebrew term that means "conquest" but is commonly used to refer to the occupation of Palestine."
• "Why would all official versions “mistranslate” such an error, especially as other mistranslations or transcription errors are problems which have an origin rationally evident of substitution of a single character of script."