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mischiefed

mischiefed is the simple past and past participle of mischief.

Meaning of mischief

Verb

mischief (third-person singular simple present mischiefs, present participle mischiefing, simple past and past participle mischiefed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To do a mischief to; to harm.
    • "Not now, Smee," Hook said darkly. "He is only one, and I want to mischief all the seven. Scatter and look for them."1911, J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie, “The Island Come True”, in Peter and Wendy, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 86
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To slander.
    • And so it hath been divers times; Men mischiefing the Jews to excuse their own Wickedness: as to instance one Precedent in the time of a certain King of Portugal.1708, John Dunton, The Phenix, page 403

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Questions about mischiefed

What is mischiefed the simple past and past participle of?
Mischiefed is the simple past and past participle of mischief.

Words near mischiefed in the dictionary

  1. mischief rule
  2. mischief rules
  3. mischief-maker
  4. mischief-makers
  5. mischiefe
  6. mischiefed
  7. mischiefes
  8. mischiefful
  9. mischiefing
  10. mischiefless
  11. mischiefmaker

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