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misgrow

misgrow verb: to grow incorrectly or amiss.

Verb

misgrow (third-person singular simple present misgrows, present participle misgrowing, simple past misgrew, past participle misgrown)

  1. (ambitransitive) To grow incorrectly or amiss.
    • Fingers or toes may misgrow club-like together. One kidney may fail. The head may contain practically no brain.1940, Charles Sherrington, Man on his Nature
    • The notion was that thereafter the first poetic language decayed and misgrew into workaday language, of merely instrumental usefulness, and only from time to time was it by the miracle of genius rediscovered by some few who were able to [...]1966, Benedetto Croce, Philosophy, poetry, history

Forms of misgrow

third-person singular presentmisgrows
present participlemisgrowing
pastmisgrew
past participlemisgrown

Origin of misgrow

From mis- + grow.

Words formed from misgrow

Questions about misgrow

What does misgrow mean?
Misgrow means to grow incorrectly or amiss.
What part of speech is misgrow?
Misgrow is a verb.
What is the past tense of misgrow?
The past tense of misgrow is misgrew.

Words near misgrow in the dictionary

  1. misgrounds
  2. misgroup
  3. misgrouped
  4. misgrouping
  5. misgroups
  6. misgrow
  7. misgrowing
  8. misgrown
  9. misgrows
  10. misgrowth
  11. misgrowths

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