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misget

misget verb: to get wrongly or unlawfully; to procure by unlawful means.

Verb

misget (third-person singular simple present misgets, present participle misgetting, simple past misgot, past participle misgotten)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To get wrongly or unlawfully; to procure by unlawful means.
    • the fruitlesse end
      Of thy vaine boast , and spoile of love misgot1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of misget

third-person singular presentmisgets
present participlemisgetting
pastmisgot
past participlemisgotten

Origin of misget

From Middle English misgeten, equivalent to mis- + get.

Words formed from misget

Questions about misget

What does misget mean?
Misget means to get wrongly or unlawfully; to procure by unlawful means.
What part of speech is misget?
Misget is a verb.
What is the past tense of misget?
The past tense of misget is misgot.

Words near misget in the dictionary

  1. misgenotyping
  2. misgesture
  3. misgestured
  4. misgestures
  5. misgesturing
  6. misget
  7. misgets
  8. misgetting
  9. misgive
  10. misgiven
  11. misgives

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