missummarize

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verb

To summarize incorrectly; to give an inaccurate summary.

Scrabble 27

Meanings

verbmissummarize (third-person singular simple present missummarizes, present participle missummarizing, simple past and past participle missummarized)

present singular third person missummarizes · participle present missummarizing · participle past missummarized · past missummarized · alternative missummarise

  1. To summarize incorrectly; to give an inaccurate summary.

    To. missummarize it as a slogan, I would describe feminine writing, like somatic writing, as writing from within my guts, from within my lived experience.

    2021, David John Farmer, Post-Traditional Public Administration Theory, page 95
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    But he missummarizes the historical events themselves, imagines the entire tale as a tour de force in the amalgamation of historical materials, and concludes that this "Paradise Lost in provincial miniature" has been arranged to tell us that "neither a whipping post nor a maypole can stand for the best in life".

    1984, Michael J. Colacurcio, The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales, page 603

    In my judgment Conrad and Weinberg missummarize media discourse about genetics as much as they accuse the press of doing , and in ways similar to the press ( though with reversed valence ), with regard to the summarizing of scientific discourse.

    1999, Celeste Michelle Condit, The Meanings of the Gene: Public Debates about Human Heredity, page 294

Origin

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APA

missummarize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/missummarize

MLA

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Chicago

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