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mistone

mistone verb: to give a bad or wrong tone to.

Verb

mistone (third-person singular simple present mistones, present participle mistoning, simple past and past participle mistoned)

  1. (transitive) To give a bad or wrong tone to.
    • On the whole it were better to misguide a child in knowledge, which it can remedy later, than to mistone it in feeling, for which there is no remedy. A jarring note implanted in its nature might spoil the music of its life […]1895, Henry Maudsley, The Pathology of Mind, page 541

Forms of mistone

third-person singular presentmistones
present participlemistoning
past participlemistoned
pastmistoned

Origin of mistone

From mis- + tone.

Questions about mistone

What does mistone mean?
Mistone means to give a bad or wrong tone to.
What part of speech is mistone?
Mistone is a verb.
What is the past tense of mistone?
The past tense of mistone is mistoned.

Words near mistone in the dictionary

  1. mistokenize
  2. mistokenized
  3. mistokenizes
  4. mistokenizing
  5. mistold
  6. mistone
  7. mistoned
  8. mistones
  9. mistoning
  10. mistonusk
  11. mistook

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