mistime

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to do, arrange, or judge the timing of something incorrectly

   She mistimed her jump and struck the hurdle.

2. 2
   verb

   to state or record the time of an event incorrectly

   The historian mistimed the episode by placing it a decade too early.

Formed from mis-, 'wrongly,' + time. Recorded since Middle English, it can describe either performing an action at the wrong moment or assigning an event the wrong time.

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