Measure incorrectly

Usage examples of misgauge.

That instant he received a smart blow on the chin, which would have been much harder but that Roger misgauged his footing on the uneven cobbles, and hardly reached the face of his opponent, who topped him by many inches.

Several times, in describing maneuvers to her, the year-captain gives her an incorrect coordinate—the first time by accident, for the board is not actually marked with printed numbers and letters, and since it is a long time since he last has played, he misgauges the coordinates occasionally—and then twice more deliberately, to test her.

A vocation that did not prevent him from misgauging the number of minutes it required to heat a frozen TV dinner.