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missway

missway verb: to sway or influence to an unfortunate result.

Verb

missway (third-person singular simple present missways, present participle misswaying, simple past and past participle misswayed)

  1. To sway or influence to an unfortunate result.
    • Through misswaying, it seemed to decline.1603, John Davies, Microcosmos, page 60
    • The swiftness of motion or violent passions will missway our inclinations or propensions, though in themselves moderate, as far as the settled weight of an habituate inclination or custom.1844, Thomas Jackson, The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D., page 509

Forms of missway

third-person singular presentmissways
present participlemisswaying
past participlemisswayed
pastmisswayed

Origin of missway

From mis- + sway.

Questions about missway

What does missway mean?
Missway means to sway or influence to an unfortunate result.
What part of speech is missway?
Missway is a verb.
What is the past tense of missway?
The past tense of missway is misswayed.

Words near missway in the dictionary

  1. missuturing
  2. misswallow
  3. misswallowed
  4. misswallowing
  5. misswallows
  6. missway
  7. misswayed
  8. misswaying
  9. missways
  10. misswear
  11. misswearing

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