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mistrains

mistrains is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 mistrains

What is mistrains the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Mistrains is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mistrain.

Words near mistrains in the dictionary

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

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