misendow
misendow verb: to provide or endow with something that is not a benefit.
Verb
misendow (third-person singular simple present misendows, present participle misendowing, simple past and past participle misendowed)
- To provide or endow with something that is not a benefit.
- Given the interactive character of genes and environment, one now must ask, "Are there certain specific genetic mechanisms or processes, pathological or otherwise, that determine that certain individuals so endowed (or misendowed) will be unable to live up to social and cultural expectations of...1970, Donald J. Mulvihill, Melvin Marvin Tumin, Lynn A. Curtis, Crimes of Violence, page 419
- Nostromo's fate demonstrates that even possession of what has been figuratively misendowed with essential reality does not mitigate that desire responsible for the genesis of the fetishistic process itself.1982, David Simpson, Fetishism and Imagination: Dickens, Melville, Conrad, page 96
Forms of misendow
| third-person singular present | misendows |
|---|---|
| present participle | misendowing |
| past participle | misendowed |
| past | misendowed |
Origin of misendow
From mis- + endow.
Questions about misendow
- What does misendow mean?
- Misendow means to provide or endow with something that is not a benefit.
- What part of speech is misendow?
- Misendow is a verb.
- What is the past tense of misendow?
- The past tense of misendow is misendowed.
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