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mistrained

mistrained is the simple past and past participle of mistrain.

Meaning of mistrain

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

Questions about mistrained

What is mistrained the simple past and past participle of?
Mistrained is the simple past and past participle of mistrain.

Words near mistrained in the dictionary

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

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