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misspend

misspend verb: to spend poorly, incorrectly or unwisely.

Verb

misspend (third-person singular simple present misspends, present participle misspending, simple past and past participle misspent)

  1. To spend poorly, incorrectly or unwisely.
    • I misspent my youth making friends and meeting people. Wait a minute: that's the secret of my success!
    • Matters of a much more extraordinary kind are to be the subject of this history, or I should grossly mis-spend my time in writing so voluminous a work […]1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

misspend meaning in Urdu

misspend in Urdu

بگاڑنا, گل چھرے اڑانا

Forms of misspend

third-person singular presentmisspends
present participlemisspending
past participlemisspent
pastmisspent

Origin of misspend

From Middle English misspenden, equivalent to mis- + spend.

Words formed from misspend

Questions about misspend

What does misspend mean?
Misspend means to spend poorly, incorrectly or unwisely.
What is misspend in Urdu?
Misspend in Urdu is بگاڑنا, گل چھرے اڑانا. See Misspend meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is misspend?
Misspend is a verb.
What is the past tense of misspend?
The past tense of misspend is misspent.

Words near misspend in the dictionary

  1. misspellingly
  2. misspellings
  3. misspells
  4. misspellt
  5. misspelt
  6. misspend
  7. misspender
  8. misspenders
  9. misspendest
  10. misspendeth
  11. misspending

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: misspend (page history and authors); misspend (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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