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misspread

misspread verb: to spread incorrectly or inappropriately.

Verb

misspread (third-person singular simple present misspreads, present participle misspreading, simple past and past participle misspread)

  1. To spread incorrectly or inappropriately.
    • Never shall Obloquy your mansion seek, Or Anguish blight the roses on your cheek; Nor vagrant Zephyr insolent misspread The hazel-curling tresses of thy envied head!1790, Anthony Pasquin (psudonym of John Williams), A Postscript to the New Bath Guide. A poem, page 82
    • Misspread material is fed back to the forming station.1987, Ligna Technologies Ltd, Alberta. Canadian Forestry Service, Report on Cement Bonded Particleboard, Its Applications and a Preliminary Assessment of a Plant to be Located in Alberta, page 7

Noun

misspread (plural misspreads)

  1. An instance of misspreading.
    • The weight is controlled in order to reject misspreads.1987, Ligna Technologies Ltd, Alberta. Canadian Forestry Service, Report on Cement Bonded Particleboard, Its Applications and a Preliminary Assessment of a Plant to be Located in Alberta, page 7

Examples of misspread in a sentence

  • Back brooming to redistribute and realign any misspread aggregate was also carried out.1992, National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board, Foundation Engineering, page 39:
  • Once widely misspread, the belief that ketamine causes ICP elevation has been disproven, leading to its resurgence in the field of medicine.2022 July 28, Luis Rueda Carillo, Klepper Alfrdo Garcia, Nilufer Yalcin, Manan Shah, “Ketamine and its emergence in the field of...

Forms of misspread

Verb
third-person singular presentmisspreads
present participlemisspreading
past participlemisspread
pastmisspread
Noun
pluralmisspreads

Origin of misspread

From mis- + spread.

Questions about misspread

What does misspread mean?
Misspread means to spread incorrectly or inappropriately.
How do you use misspread in a sentence?
Back brooming to redistribute and realign any misspread aggregate was also carried out.
What part of speech is misspread?
Misspread can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of misspread?
The past tense of misspread is misspread.

Words near misspread in the dictionary

  1. misspotting
  2. misspray
  3. missprayed
  4. misspraying
  5. missprays
  6. misspread
  7. misspreading
  8. misspreads
  9. missprision
  10. missprisions
  11. misspun

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