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Webster 1913 Edition


Misrecollect

Mis-recˊol-lect′

,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects.
Hitchcock.

Definition 2024


misrecollect

misrecollect

English

Verb

misrecollect (third-person singular simple present misrecollects, present participle misrecollecting, simple past and past participle misrecollected)

  1. (transitive) To recollect incorrectly; to misremember.
    • 2007 February 21, Neil A. Lewis, “In Closing Pleas, Clashing Views on Libby’s Role”, in New York Times:
      It means he may have misrecollected what happened.”