Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - miscalculate

(miscalculates, miscalculating, miscalculated) If you miscalculate, you make a mistake in judging a situation or in making a calculation. It’s clear that he has badly miscalculated the mood of the people... The government appears to have miscalculated and bills are higher as a result. VERB: V n, V • miscalculation (miscalculations) The coup failed because of miscalculations by the plotters... N-VAR