Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb mistranslate

1 sense of mistranslate

Sense 1
mistranslate -- (translate incorrectly)
       => translate, interpret, render -- (restate (words) from one language into another language; "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."; "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?"; "She rendered the French poem into English"; "He translates for the U.N.")