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misfriend

misfriend verb: to friend wrongly, incorrectly, or by mistake; be a bad friend to.

Verb

misfriend (third-person singular simple present misfriends, present participle misfriending, simple past and past participle misfriended)

  1. (ambitransitive, nonstandard, rare) To friend wrongly, incorrectly, or by mistake; be a bad friend to.
    • Up to then they'd niver been misfriended as fur as I know.1889, David Christie Murray, Schwartz

Forms of misfriend

third-person singular presentmisfriends
present participlemisfriending
past participlemisfriended
pastmisfriended

Origin of misfriend

From mis- + friend.

Questions about misfriend

What does misfriend mean?
Misfriend means to friend wrongly, incorrectly, or by mistake; be a bad friend to.
What part of speech is misfriend?
Misfriend is a verb.
What is the past tense of misfriend?
The past tense of misfriend is misfriended.

Words near misfriend in the dictionary

  1. misframe
  2. misframed
  3. misframes
  4. misframing
  5. misframings
  6. misfriend
  7. misfuck
  8. misfucked
  9. misfucking
  10. misfucks
  11. misfuel

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