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misencounter en · NOUN

Etymology

From mis- + encounter.

Meanings

1. A bad or wrong encounter.
   • As is logical, the meeting illustrates mutual differences until it becomes an emblem of a misencounter. 2006, Julio Ortega, Transatlantic Translations: Dialogues in Latin American Literature:
   • We had tried to meet on earlier occasions, which led to a couple of hilarious misencounters. The first time we were to meet at the Biltmore Men's Bar, (even the name is impossible today!) and I was waiting in the downstairs bar, and he was waiting in the upstairs bar, each thinking the other had stood him up! 1998, The Texas Review, volume 19, page 36:

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Translations (1)

es desencuentro m mal topamiento (Translations)