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mistones

mistones is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 mistones

What is mistones the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Mistones is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mistone.

Words near mistones in the dictionary

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

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