miswrite
To write incorrectly.
Noun
- A failed write operation.
- Line fluctuations can cause misreads and miswrites. - 1983, Lawrence Calmus, The business guide to small computers, page 143:
Origin
From Middle English miswriten, from Old English miswrītan, misƿrītan (“to write incorrectly; make a mistake in writing; miswrite”), equivalent to mis- + write.
Forms
Verb
- To write incorrectly.
- 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted in Perspectives in American Literature by Paul P. Reuben, […] but we lose ever and anon a word, or a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.