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misdub

misdub verb: to dub incorrectly (any sense).

Verb

misdub (third-person singular simple present misdubs, present participle misdubbing, simple past and past participle misdubbed)

  1. To dub incorrectly (any sense).
    • Hearken, James of England, And you, his peers of council; Spain my master Claims Walter Raleigh here, misdubbed for knight, A felon, and a murderer, and a pirate.1866, Martin Farquhar Tupper, Raleigh: His Life and His Death: A Historical Play in Five Acts, page 57
    • At one point in this sequence it seems that the taps have been slightly misdubbed — very rare in Astaire's work.1986, John E. Mueller, Astaire Dancing: The Musical Films, page 193

Examples of misdub in a sentence

  • Godard in Tout Va Bien (1972) and Hanoun in Une Simple Histoire deliberately misdub in order to sabotage the fictive unity of voice and image.1987, Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, “The Cinema After Babel: Language, Difference, Power”, in Shirley F. Staton, editor, Literary Theories in...
  • The first was that the old line of fortresses to the east, the ones facing Germany and misdubbed the "Maginot Line," were holding out well for the nonce, and buthering the invaders in the process.2005, John Ringo, Tom Kratman, Watch on the Rhine:
  • 'Actually, THIS is lack,' I said as I sat down, pointing to the sculpture on my right whom Rena had misdubbed Barkley.2011, Leslie Marshall, A Girl Could Stand Up, page 79:
  • Indeed, that cell may be misdubbed the "Edna face-cell" should the truth of the local-coding hypothesis be taken for granted.2016, Patricia S. Churchland, Terrence J. Sejnowski, The Computational Brain, page 179:

Forms of misdub

third-person singular presentmisdubs
present participlemisdubbing
past participlemisdubbed
pastmisdubbed

Origin of misdub

From mis- + dub.

Questions about misdub

What does misdub mean?
Misdub means to dub incorrectly (any sense).
How do you use misdub in a sentence?
Godard in Tout Va Bien (1972) and Hanoun in Une Simple Histoire deliberately misdub in order to sabotage the fictive unity of voice and image.
What part of speech is misdub?
Misdub is a verb.
What is the past tense of misdub?
The past tense of misdub is misdubbed.

Words near misdub in the dictionary

  1. misdrop
  2. misdropped
  3. misdropping
  4. misdrops
  5. misdrove
  6. misdub
  7. misdubbed
  8. misdubbing
  9. misdubs
  10. misdug
  11. misdump

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