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mischieve

UK/mɪsˈtʃiːv/

mischieve verb: to destroy.

Verb

mischieve (third-person singular simple present mischieves, present participle mischieving, simple past and past participle mischieved)

  1. (obsolete) To destroy.
  2. (Scotland) To damage, do harm to; to injure.
    • thenne sire Tristram wold make no lenger delayes but lasshed at sir Lamorak / & thus they foughte longe /[…]/ Thenne sir Tristram seid to sir Lamorak in alle my lyf mette I neuer with suche a knyght that was soo bygge and well brethed as ye be / therfore said syre Tristram hit were pyte / that ony...1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IX
    • I have read of Augustine, that once by wandring out of his way, he escaped one who lay in wait to mischieve him;1650, Moses his choice, with his eye fixed upon heaven, page 54

mischieve meaning in Bengali and Punjabi

mischieve in Bengali

ধ্বংস করা, ক্ষতি করা, অনিষ্ট করা, আঘাত করা

mischieve in Punjabi

mischieve, teasing
ہلتر hiltar

Forms of mischieve

third-person singular presentmischieves
present participlemischieving
past participlemischieved
pastmischieved
alternative formmischief

Origin of mischieve

From Middle English myscheven, from Old French meschever, from mes- + chever.

Questions about mischieve

What does mischieve mean?
Mischieve means to destroy.
What is mischieve in Bengali?
Mischieve in Bengali is ধ্বংস করা, ক্ষতি করা, অনিষ্ট করা. See Mischieve meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is mischieve?
Mischieve is a verb.
How do you pronounce mischieve?
Mischieve is pronounced /mɪsˈtʃiːv/ (UK).
What is the past tense of mischieve?
The past tense of mischieve is mischieved.

Words near mischieve in the dictionary

  1. mischiefless
  2. mischiefmaker
  3. mischiefmakers
  4. mischiefmaking
  5. mischiefs
  6. mischieve
  7. mischieved
  8. mischieves
  9. mischieving
  10. mischievious
  11. mischievous

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mischieve (page history and authors); mischieve (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ہلتر (Punjabi) (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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