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mistrain

UK/mɪsˈtɹeɪn/

mistrain verb: to draw (something) badly or in the wrong direction.

Verb

mistrain (third-person singular simple present mistrains, present participle mistraining, simple past and past participle mistrained)

  1. (transitive) To draw (something) badly or in the wrong direction.
    • For she by force is still fro me detayned, / And with corruptfull brybes is to untruth mis-trayned.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of mistrain

third-person singular presentmistrains
present participlemistraining
past participlemistrained
pastmistrained

Origin of mistrain

From mis- + train.

Questions about mistrain

What does mistrain mean?
Mistrain means to draw (something) badly or in the wrong direction.
What part of speech is mistrain?
Mistrain is a verb.
How do you pronounce mistrain?
Mistrain is pronounced /mɪsˈtɹeɪn/ (UK).
What is the past tense of mistrain?
The past tense of mistrain is mistrained.

Words near mistrain in the dictionary

  1. mistrafficking
  2. mistrail
  3. mistrailed
  4. mistrailing
  5. mistrails
  6. mistrain
  7. mistrained
  8. mistraining
  9. mistrains
  10. mistral
  11. Mistralian

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