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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

misshade en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + shade.

Meanings

  1. To shade improperly.
    • Then, with his emergently famous precision, he enumerated the flaws Bridges had made when he copied the map. […] Rocks too far north and of the wrong size. Hills misplaced, misshaded. Rivers too close together. 2013, Marguerite Holloway, The Measure of Manhattan:
    • The secretary of the interior has misstated and/or misshaded a few facts in the paragraph just quoted. 2017, Andy Kerr, Precedent for Secretary Zinke’s Gut-Job on the National Monuments:
    • Two days later when he was being discharged, Adams handed Borden a termination slip stating that he was being discharged for misshading. 1971, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 889:

Forms

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misshades Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
misshading Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
misshaded Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
misshaded Tense=Past lexicographic