miswander
miswander verb: to wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray.
Verb
miswander (third-person singular simple present miswanders, present participle miswandering, simple past and past participle miswandered)
- To wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray.
- Her weary palfrey, closely as she might, Now well recover'd after long repast, In his proud furnitures she freshly dight, His late miswander'd ways now to remeasure right1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
- Or show you restless, miswandering, misclimbing ones new and easier footpaths?1909, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Thomas Common, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, →ISBN
Examples of miswander in a sentence
- Trend: Is it not bitter sarcasm that after and a half centuries of miswandering we are invited to follow the ....1968, The New York Times Book Review:
- As if it were a maze where these orphans of his heart had miswandered in their journey in life […]1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing, page 6:
Forms of miswander
| third-person singular present | miswanders |
|---|---|
| present participle | miswandering |
| past participle | miswandered |
| past | miswandered |
Origin of miswander
From mis- + wander.
Questions about miswander
- What does miswander mean?
- Miswander means to wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray.
- How do you use miswander in a sentence?
- Trend: Is it not bitter sarcasm that after and a half centuries of miswandering we are invited to follow the ....
- What part of speech is miswander?
- Miswander is a verb.
- What is the past tense of miswander?
- The past tense of miswander is miswandered.
Words near miswander in the dictionary
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