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misdeem

misdeem verb: to misjudge, to deem wrongly.

Verb

misdeem (third-person singular simple present misdeems, present participle misdeeming, simple past and past participle misdeemed)

  1. To misjudge, to deem wrongly.
    • The doubt which ye misdeem, fair love, is vain, / That fondly fear to lose your liberty; / […]1500s, Edmund Spenser, sonnet
    • Nor say I this for that I aught misdeem / That Egypt's promis'd succors fail us might.1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xxxviii

misdeem meaning in Urdu and Kannada

misdeem in Urdu

شبہ کرنا

misdeem in Kannada

ತಪ್ಪೆಣಿಸು, ತಪ್ಪುಗ್ರಹಿಸು, ತಪ್ಪು ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯ ತಳೆದಿರು, ತಪ್ಪು ಭಾವನೆ ಹೊಂದಿರು

Forms of misdeem

third-person singular presentmisdeems
present participlemisdeeming
past participlemisdeemed
pastmisdeemed

Origin of misdeem

Late 14th century, from Middle English misdemen, equivalent to mis- + deem. Cognate with Icelandic misdæma (“to misjudge”).

Questions about misdeem

What does misdeem mean?
Misdeem means to misjudge, to deem wrongly.
What is misdeem in Urdu?
Misdeem in Urdu is شبہ کرنا. See Misdeem meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is misdeem?
Misdeem is a verb.
What is the past tense of misdeem?
The past tense of misdeem is misdeemed.

Words near misdeem in the dictionary

  1. misdecorating
  2. misdeed
  3. misdeeder
  4. misdeeds
  5. misdeedy
  6. misdeem
  7. misdeemed
  8. misdeemful
  9. misdeeming
  10. misdeemings
  11. misdeems

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misdeem (page history and authors); misdeem (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misdeem (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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