What's the difference between disremember and misremember?
Disremember
Definition:
(v. t.) To fail to remember; to forget.
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Misremember
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results were similar to those of Jones and thus contradict the hypothesis that misremembering of the Queen's head is caused by a leftward drawing bias.
(2) It’s easy to drop things, misremember orders, or entirely forget customers who have been waiting for half an hour.
(3) I had come here in prayer, wishing that my memory had misremembered.
(4) I think he's just misremembered, as this has never been the case," wrote Banks.
(5) Take Harold Macmillan's much-recalled, and often misremembered, Night of the Long Knives in July 1962.
(6) Far from being a study in existential disaffection, as I had so badly misremembered, The Plague is about courage, about engagement, about paltriness and generosity, about small heroism and large cowardice, and about all kinds of profoundly humanist problems, such as love and goodness, happiness and mutual connection.
(7) Children may remember even salient stimuli and actions more poorly than adults do, but there was no evidence that children misremembered touches that did not occur.
(8) At the inquest, the Carrickfergus coach remembered that Ben stood up on his own, one of a series of misremembered facts that Peter and Karen disproved by showing the video.
(9) Second, in addition to this generally weak level of remembering, an instance of systematic misremembering was consistently observed.
(10) More broadly stated, such approaches have been useful for discovering the reasons that gender cognitions are inaccurate--why some information is misperceived, misremembered, and selectively learned.
(11) Leftward misremembering was not observed in this case.
(12) I rang a friend of my mother's to check, in case I'd somehow misremembered it.
(13) This is often paraphrased or misremembered as "The poor are always with us," a sentence that returns more than half a billion Google hits.
(14) The studies investigated natural errors in which people called a familiar person by the wrong name, misremembered with whom they had interacted, or mistakenly directed an action at an inappropriate person.
(15) It was reported by Jones (1990) that the design of British coins is systematically misremembered.
(16) We found that subjects misremembered the spring as either more compressed or less compressed as predicted by the implied dynamics of the display sequence.
(17) In addition, durations marked by a nonarbitrary ending were more accurately remembered than those marked by an arbitrary ending which, in fact, were misremembered as shorter than their actual duration.
(18) The general human tendency to misremember details would have been exacerbated.
(19) Over and again, the defence teams had the resources to find some helpful stick with which to beat a potentially dangerous witness – a misremembered date, a forgotten detail, even on one occasion the fact that the witness had once had coffee with Nick Davies from the Guardian.
(20) Empire 2.0 is a fanciful vision of the future based on a distorted misremembering of the past.