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misgets

misgets is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misget.

Meaning of misget

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

Questions about misgets

What is misgets the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Misgets is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misget.

Words near misgets in the dictionary

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

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