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miswear

miswear verb: to wear badly or wrongly.

Verb

miswear (third-person singular simple present miswears, present participle miswearing, simple past miswore, past participle misworn)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To wear badly or wrongly.
    • the people buy in effect chaffe for corn , for that which is miswrought will miswearc. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court

Forms of miswear

third-person singular presentmiswears
present participlemiswearing
pastmiswore
past participlemisworn

Origin of miswear

From mis- + wear.

Questions about miswear

What does miswear mean?
Miswear means to wear badly or wrongly.
What part of speech is miswear?
Miswear is a verb.
What is the past tense of miswear?
The past tense of miswear is miswore.

Words near miswear in the dictionary

  1. miswashing
  2. miswater
  3. miswatered
  4. miswatering
  5. miswaters
  6. miswear
  7. miswearing
  8. miswears
  9. misweave
  10. misweaves
  11. misweaving

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