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mislabour

mislabour verb: to work badly or wrongly; to mismanage and thereby damage (farmland, etc.).

Verb

mislabour (third-person singular simple present mislabours, present participle mislabouring, simple past and past participle mislaboured)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To work badly or wrongly; to mismanage and thereby damage (farmland, etc.).

Forms of mislabour

third-person singular presentmislabours
present participlemislabouring
past participlemislaboured
pastmislaboured

Origin of mislabour

From mis- + labour.

Questions about mislabour

What does mislabour mean?
Mislabour means to work badly or wrongly; to mismanage and thereby damage (farmland, etc.).
What part of speech is mislabour?
Mislabour is a verb.
What is the past tense of mislabour?
The past tense of mislabour is mislaboured.

Words near mislabour in the dictionary

  1. mislabeller
  2. mislabellers
  3. mislabelling
  4. mislabellings
  5. mislabels
  6. mislabour
  7. mislaboured
  8. mislabouring
  9. mislabours
  10. mislace
  11. mislaced

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