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# misremember

«misremember» in Mova's school dictionary: **to remember it wrongly** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (misremember, misremembers, misremembered, misremembering)

### meaning for a pupil

To misremember something is to remember it wrongly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misremember/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and in history lessons it explains why witnesses disagree. In everyday life people misremember names, numbers or what happened. In a maths problem a character may misremember a number, so you must spot the wrong one. Phrase: if I don't misremember (old-fashioned).

### examples

- I misremembered the date of the party and went on the wrong day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misremember/#x1)
- Witnesses often misremember small details. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misremember/#x2)
- He misremembered the phone number by one digit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misremember/#x3)
- I may have misremembered her name; was it Ella or Emma? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misremember/#x4)
- Grandpa misremembers where he puts his glasses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misremember/#x5)
- She misremembered the recipe and used salt instead of sugar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misremember/#x6)
- Ben misremembered 7 times 8 as 54; it is 56. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misremember/#x7)
- Memories can change, so we sometimes misremember things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misremember/#x8)

### note

Regular verb. The prefix "mis-" means wrongly or badly (misspell, misunderstand). A slightly formal word; everyday phrase is "remember wrong" or "get it wrong".

### In the corpora

- [A vivid example: a politician who says he "misremembered" may simply have lied.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/4/)
- ["Misremember" is a US official way to say someone remembered wrongly or lied about the past.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/22/)
- [Some phrases hide the truth completely: a person who "misremembered" may simply have said something false.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/34-failure-and-mistakes/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «misremember» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misremember/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.