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misfarm

misfarm verb: to do a poor job of farming.

Verb

misfarm (third-person singular simple present misfarms, present participle misfarming, simple past and past participle misfarmed)

  1. To do a poor job of farming.
    • The poet seems to inwardly adopt as his ancestors all the generations of farmers — good and bad, but mostly bad — who for two hundred years have farmed and misfarmed this region along the Kentucky River.2004, Ronald Jager, The Fate of Family Farming: Variations on an American Idea, page 74
    • The stretch of land that Father inherited from his father was misfarmed by every generation for over seventy-five years and was gray, unwilling soil.2012, Kevin McIlvoy, The Complete History of New Mexico

Forms of misfarm

third-person singular presentmisfarms
present participlemisfarming
past participlemisfarmed
pastmisfarmed

Origin of misfarm

From mis- + farm.

Questions about misfarm

What does misfarm mean?
Misfarm means to do a poor job of farming.
What part of speech is misfarm?
Misfarm is a verb.
What is the past tense of misfarm?
The past tense of misfarm is misfarmed.

Words near misfarm in the dictionary

  1. misfalne
  2. misfare
  3. misfared
  4. misfares
  5. misfaring
  6. misfarm
  7. misfarmed
  8. misfarming
  9. misfarms
  10. misfashion
  11. misfashioned

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