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mishappened

mishappened is the simple past and past participle of mishappen.

Meaning of mishappen

Verb

mishappen (third-person singular simple present mishappens, present participle mishappening, simple past and past participle mishappened)

  1. (obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
  2. (archaic) To happen through misfortune.
    • His fearefull friends weare out the wofull night, / Ne dare to weepe, nor seeme to vnderstand / The heauie hap, which on them is alight, / Affraid, least to themselues the like mishappen might.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. (intransitive) To happen ill; fare ill.

Questions about mishappened

What is mishappened the simple past and past participle of?
Mishappened is the simple past and past participle of mishappen.

Words near mishappened in the dictionary

  1. mishap
  2. mishapen
  3. Mishapocalypse
  4. mishapped
  5. mishappen
  6. mishappened
  7. mishappening
  8. mishappenings
  9. mishappens
  10. mishappiness
  11. mishapping

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