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mistranslate

verb as in misconstrue

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When the interpreter is a no-show, family members often jump in to fill the gap - like the time Ray mischievously stepped up to "mistranslate" his school parents' evening to his own advantage.

From BBC

To translate it as ‘machine of the world’ is to mistranslate.

Below runs a series of words: misinformation, misidentify, mistranslate.

Official Chinese propaganda outlets often mistranslate the chairman in that third title as president, when writing for foreign audiences.

From Slate

Given the sentence “The trophy cannot fit in the cabinet because it’s too big,” the model could mistranslate because it doesn’t know which “it” is the one that’s too big. “GNMT doesn’t have a model of how the world actually works yet,” said Le.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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