Definition of mistime
mistimed;
mistiming
1
: to time (something) wrongly or improperly
- Sometimes players will mistime their entry into the zone—skating slightly ahead of the puck—and get whistled for offsides.
- —Jesse Granger
2
: to reckon or state the time of (something) incorrectly
- Imboden … appears to confuse this early altercation with a later, more famous, instance … . It is possible that Imboden had completely mistimed the episode.
- —Frank E. Vandiver
