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third-person singular simple present misstates, present participle misstating, simple past and past participle misstated
To make a statement that is in error, inadvertently; to say incorrectly, through a slip of the tongue. quotations examples
Correction: August 21, 2017An earlier version of this article misstated the location of Wuhan. It is in Hubei Province, not Hebei.
2017 August 21 , Kiki Zhao, “A Chinese Poet’s Unusual Path From Isolated Farm Life to Celebrity”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2017-09-07, Asia Pacific