Meaning & use
miscalculate
To calculate something incorrectly, or to badly misjudge a situation.
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The engineer miscalculated the load that the bridge could safely support.
She miscalculated how long the drive would take and arrived quite late.
A note on using this word
Miscalculate applies both to numerical errors and to broader misjudgments of risk or outcome.
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