Word Meanings - MISREPEAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of. Gov. Winthrop.

Related words: (words related to MISREPEAT)

• REPEATEDLY
  More than once; again and again; indefinitely.
• WRONGOUS
  Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
• WRONG
  imp. of Wring. Wrung. Chaucer.
• REPEATER
  One who, or that which, repeats. Specifically: A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters. A repeating firearm. An instrument for resending a telegraphic message
• WRONGLESS
  Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney.
• REPEAT
  To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn.
• WRONGDOING
  Evil or wicked behavior or action.
• WRONGFUL
  Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. -- Wrong"ful*ly, adv. -- Wrong"ful*ness, n.
• WRONGHEAD
  A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character.
• VERSIONIST
  One who makes or favors a version; a translator.
• VERSION
  A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See Anteversion, and Retroversion. 3. The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language. 4. A translation;
• REPEATING
  Doing the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch. Repeating circle. See the Note under Circle, n., 3. -- Repeating decimal , a circulating decimal. See under Decimal.
• WRONG-TIMED
  Done at an improper time; ill-timed.
• WRONGNESS
  The quality or state of being wrong; wrongfulness; error; fault. The best great wrongnesses within themselves. Bp. Butler. The rightness or wrongness of this view. Latham.
• WRONGDOER
  One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort feasor. Ayliffe. (more info) 1. One who injures another, or who does wrong.
• WRONGLY
  In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak.
• WRONGHEADED
  Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse. -- Wrong"head`ed*ly, adv. -- Wrong"head`ed*ness, n. Macaulay.
• WRONGER
  One who wrongs or injures another. Shak. "Wrongers of the world." Tennyson.
• REVERSION
  The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after
• SUBVERSION
  The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution. The
• SUBVERSIONARY
  Promoting destruction.
• REVERSIONER
  One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated. Blackstone.
• TRANSVERSION
  The act of changing from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
• AVERSION
  1. A turning away. Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury. 2. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. Mutual aversion of races. Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of
• ANIMADVERSION
  1. The act or power of perceiving or taking notice; direct or simple perception. The soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called. Glanvill. 2. Monition; warning. Clarendon. 3. Remarks by way of criticism
• CONVERSION
  An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse. Or bring my action of conversion And trover for my goods. Hudibras. (more info) 1. The act of turning or changing
• PERVERSION
  The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use. "Violations and perversions of the laws."
• CONTROVERSION
  Act of controverting; controversy. Hooker.
• CONTRAVERSION
  A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe. Congreve.