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miswent

miswent is the simple past of misgo.

Meaning of misgo

Verb

misgo (third-person singular simple present misgoes, present participle misgoing, simple past miswent, past participle misgone)

  1. (archaic, dialectal, intransitive) To go wrong, make a mistake, go astray, become lost, miscarry.
    • Brother Samson, in the time of the Antipopes, had been sent to Rome on business; and, returning successful, was too late,—the business had all misgone in the interim!1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 6, Monk Samson”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)

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Questions about miswent

What is miswent the simple past of?
Miswent is the simple past of misgo.

Words near miswent in the dictionary

  1. miswelding
  2. miswelds
  3. miswend
  4. miswending
  5. miswends
  6. miswent
  7. miswield
  8. miswielded
  9. miswielding
  10. miswields
  11. miswind

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miswent (page history and authors); misgo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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