misextend
misextend verb: to extend wrongly.
Verb
misextend (third-person singular simple present misextends, present participle misextending, simple past and past participle misextended)
- To extend wrongly.
- We have seen what an aptness there is to misapply and misextend St Paul's principles of unity, and to seek support in them for that which in fact they rather exclude.1846, Julius Charles Hare, The Mission of the Comforter, and Other Sermons, page 1018
- […] and misextended this term Quichua; it was really and originally the name of a tribe which spoke a dialect of the language of the Incas and wich lived between the Pachachaca and Pampa Rivers in what is at present the provinces of Andahuailas and Abancay departamento of Apurimac in central Perú.1940, Luis Eduardo Valcárcel, Revista del Museo Nacional - Volumes 9-10, page 203
Forms of misextend
| third-person singular present | misextends |
|---|---|
| present participle | misextending |
| past participle | misextended |
| past | misextended |
Origin of misextend
From mis- + extend.
Questions about misextend
- What does misextend mean?
- Misextend means to extend wrongly.
- What part of speech is misextend?
- Misextend is a verb.
- What is the past tense of misextend?
- The past tense of misextend is misextended.
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