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mischoose

mischoose verb: to choose incorrectly or badly; to make a wrong choice.

Verb

mischoose (third-person singular simple present mischooses, present participle mischoosing, simple past mischose, past participle mischosen)

  1. (ambitransitive) To choose incorrectly or badly; to make a wrong choice.
    • Up to a certain point he was a free agent , he could choose his path ; he mischose it , and he was in the toils of necessity1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC

Forms of mischoose

third-person singular presentmischooses
present participlemischoosing
pastmischose
past participlemischosen

Origin of mischoose

From Middle English mischeosen, mischesen, equivalent to mis- + choose.

Questions about mischoose

What does mischoose mean?
Mischoose means to choose incorrectly or badly; to make a wrong choice.
What part of speech is mischoose?
Mischoose is a verb.
What is the past tense of mischoose?
The past tense of mischoose is mischose.

Words near mischoose in the dictionary

  1. mischmetals
  2. Mischna
  3. Mischnic
  4. mischoice
  5. mischoices
  6. mischoose
  7. mischooses
  8. mischoosing
  9. mischose
  10. mischosen
  11. mischristen

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