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misask en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English *misasken (suggested by derivative misasked), equivalent to mis- + ask.

Meanings

1. (rare, transitive) to ask amiss; ask badly, wrongfully, or incorrectly
   • Mr. Morris. Did that include the five seamen now in Moscow? I may have misasked the question then. 1956, Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States:
   • As Godot marks its sixtieth year in the repertory of world drama and as Beckett criticism itself likewise marks some sixty plus years of existence, we might ask ourselves, readers and spectators of Beckett's oeuvre, whether or not we have been mis-asking questions about Beckett's art. 2014, S. E. Gontarski, Creative Involution:

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