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mistoned

mistoned is the simple past and past participle of mistone.

Meaning of mistone

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

Questions about mistoned

What is mistoned the simple past and past participle of?
Mistoned is the simple past and past participle of mistone.

Words near mistoned in the dictionary

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

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