misinflect

present singular third person misinflects · participle present misinflecting · participle past misinflected · past misinflected

1. To inflect incorrectly.

   Thus the student is taught from the very beginning to misinflect an important class of German nouns.

   1869, The New York Teacher, and the American Educational Monthly, page 264

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   In consulting them, the reader should bear in mind that the singers use a variety of hiatus bridges ( j, h, v, etc.; all italicized in text) and not seldom misinflect words (sometimes under the pressure of sound-patterns).

   1980, Elinor Shaffer, Comparative Criticism

   This is one reason why one inclines to quotation in discussing his writing . Any paraphrase that even slightly misinflects his descriptions runs the risk of near-total distortion.

   1989 ·, Richard Fleming, Michael Payne, The Senses of Stanley Cavell, page 234

   They managed, in repeating his name like the echoing mountains, to mispronounce or misinflect every syllable of it.

   1998, Starling Lawrence, Montenegro: A Novel, page 31