misrender

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ render.

Verb

misrender (third-person singular simple present misrenders, present participle misrendering, simple past and past participle misrendered)

  1. (transitive) To render incorrectly.
    • 2009 June 26, Matthew L. Wald, “6 Considered Threats Kept Licenses for Aviation”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 June 2022:
      And the F.A.A. database also misrenders names of some Latin Americans, he said, taking a final name —— the name of the mother’s family, the use of which is optional —— and entering it in the field for what Americans colloquially refer to as the “last name.”

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