mismeasure
verb
mismeasured;
mismeasuring
Definition of mismeasure
: to measure (something) badly or incorrectly : to make a mistake in measuring
… the mahogany paneling for the storefront had been mismeasured and arrived too large for the opening and had to be sent back.— Alan J. Heavens In the land of Julius Caesar—a brilliant politician who nonetheless mismeasured, fatally, the temper of the Roman Senate—it is hard to fathom why, as political animals, we can never seem to ingest the most basic laws of cause and effect.— Ingrid D. Rowland
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