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misturn en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /mɪsˈtɜː(ɹ)n/
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈmɪstɜː(ɹ)n/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English misturnen, mistournen, mistornen, equivalent to mis- + turn.

Meanings

  1. A wrong turn.
    • They heroically struggled through the remainder of the figure, but Oh-Pshaw, completely demoralized, made one misturn after the other. 1919, Hildegard G. Frey, The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit:
    • At one of the dim cross-roads they had made a misturn, and were now wandering around without the slightest notion of where they were going. 1916, Hildegard G. Frey, The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods:

Forms

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misturns Number=Plur lexicographic

misturn en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /mɪsˈtɜː(ɹ)n/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English misturnen, mistournen, mistornen, equivalent to mis- + turn.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To turn wrongly or incorrectly; turn aside wrongly; pervert.
  2. (intransitive) To go wrong; make a wrong turn.

Forms

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misturns Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
misturning Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
misturned Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
misturned Tense=Past lexicographic