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mistend

mistend verb: to tend poorly.

Verb

mistend (third-person singular simple present mistends, present participle mistending, simple past and past participle mistended)

  1. To tend poorly
    • All over asia, one sees disease and bodily injury so untended, or what is worse, mistended, that the resultant condition is as dreadfu as it is intolerable.·1907, Arthur Judson Brown, The Foreign Missionary: An Incarnation of a World Movement, page 365
    • In the R. G. Winslow the vessel was being loaded with grain from an elevator, the grain flowing into the ship by its own gravity through a pipe which was mistended on board the vessel by the mate, as a result of which mistending some of the grain was lost.1939, Gustavus Hill Robinson, Handbook of Admiralty Law in the United States, page 492

Examples of mistend in a sentence

  • They freely employed the techniques of the carnival and the stage, with accomplices planted in the crowd, prearranged mistending of the fire to darken the scene at the crucial moment, and so on.1997, Philip Morrison, Nothing Is Too Wonderful to Be True, page 55:
  • The long view of the place as tended and mistended by generations of precursors allows him to inhabit it with awareness and care.2014, Nigel Wood, David Lodge, Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, Routledge, →ISBN:

Forms of mistend

third-person singular presentmistends
present participlemistending
past participlemistended
pastmistended

Origin of mistend

From mis- + tend.

Questions about mistend

What does mistend mean?
Mistend means to tend poorly.
How do you use mistend in a sentence?
They freely employed the techniques of the carnival and the stage, with accomplices planted in the crowd, prearranged mistending of the fire to darken the scene at the crucial moment, and so on.
What part of speech is mistend?
Mistend is a verb.
What is the past tense of mistend?
The past tense of mistend is mistended.

Words near mistend in the dictionary

  1. mistells
  2. mistemper
  3. mistempered
  4. mistempering
  5. mistempers
  6. mistend
  7. misteous
  8. mister
  9. Mister Big
  10. Mister Bigs
  11. Mister Charlie

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