mismemorize

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ memorize

Verb

mismemorize (third-person singular simple present mismemorizes, present participle mismemorizing, simple past and past participle mismemorized)

1. To memorize inaccurately.
   • 1999, Michele M. Solis, Influences of Song Experience on the Development of Selectivity in the Zebra Finch Forebrain, page 40:

     For example, if a bird mismemorizes the tutor song, and produces a perfect copy of its inaccurate template, then BOS itself could be a closer approximation of the template than tutor song.

   • 2013, Douglas K. Brumbaugh, Teaching Middle School Mathematics, page 306:

     The student might have mismemorized the steps of the algorithm.

   • 2019, Qiu Hu, Feng Shui Master in Metropolis: Volume 5:

     If one were to mismemorize the text, at most, they would be laughed at by others.