misdate
verb[T]
(alsomis-date)uk/mɪsˈdeɪt/us/ˌmɪsˈdeɪt/towronglysay that something has aparticulardateorage, or that somethinghappenedor was made at aparticulartime:
Most of themanuscriptswere misdated by ten to twentyyears.
In 1911 hedesignedabuildingwhich everyone today would mis-date as 1930 or 1935.
to write thewrongdateon something:
Claims wereelectronicallymisdated so that it wouldseemthey had beenprocessedontime.
Thecustomercomplainedabout the misdatedbabyblanket.
- Theauthormisdates afamousbattlefrom anearlierwar.
- They misdated histranslations, which wereactuallypublishedin the 1960s.
- Theraidledtoarrests, but thesuspectswerereleasedon atechnicality- a misdatedwarrant.
Origins and sources
- bases
- be a recipe for disaster, trouble, success, etc.idiom
- beginning
- birth
- birthplace
- born
- breeding ground
- emanate from/throughsomething/someone
- fount
- fountainhead
- gateway drug
- genesis
- hail
- paternity
- provenance
- recipe
- root
- seed
- son
- source
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