Definition of "mistranslates" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mistranslate. (verb)

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• "The fundie translation, the New International Version deliberately mistranslates some passages to make the inerrant book seem less wacko."
• "Parsi distorts history and willfully mistranslates the Iranian call for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map.’"
• "Moreover, the novel claims, he cannot find "those words" because, in an obvious nod to centuries-old Protestant arguments, the Vulgate mistranslates the Scriptures."