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misbidden

misbidden is the past participle of misbid.

Meaning of misbid

Verb

misbid (third-person singular simple present misbids, present participle misbidding, simple past misbid or misbad or misbade, past participle misbidden)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To injure; mistreat.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To insult; offend.
  3. (ambitransitive) To make an incorrect offer or bid.
    • I did my bids for that month and I misbid, and I bid all weekends.1988, Madeleine M. Leininger, Care, discovery and uses in clinical and community nursing
  4. (ambitransitive) To bid incorrectly; bid higher or lower than actual.
    • After apologizing profusely for his errors on the first two hands, he misbid the last hand and they ended up in fifth place.2004, Jim Priebe, Takeout Double: A Bridge Mystery

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Questions about misbidden

What is misbidden the past participle of?
Misbidden is the past participle of misbid.

Words near misbidden in the dictionary

  1. misbestowal
  2. misbestowed
  3. misbestowing
  4. misbestows
  5. misbid
  6. misbidden
  7. misbidding
  8. misbids
  9. misbill
  10. misbilled
  11. misbilling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misbidden (page history and authors); misbid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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