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mis·reck·on

(mĭs-rĕk′ən)

v. mis·reck·oned, mis·reck·on·ing, mis·reck·ons

v.tr.

To reckon incorrectly; miscalculate.

v.intr.

To engage in incorrect reckoning or miscalculation.

mis·reck′on·ing n.

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misreckon

(ˌmɪsˈrɛkən)

vb (tr)

to reckon or calculate wrongly

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misreckon

verb

To calculate wrongly:

miscalculate, misestimate, misjudge.

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When Kantos Kan told me, I realized with a pang of dismay that I had misreckoned the time while I lay in the utter darkness of my cell.

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The size of the "elephant" was hopelessly misreckoned. No shots of the thousands stretched along a good quarter of a mile of one of the capital's main thoroughfares nor--but this for another reason--any close-up images or sound bites of the vociferous counter-demonstrators the previous night, when the Nigerian bishop led us out of St.