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miswash en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + wash.

Meanings

1. To wash badly.
   • Angie wheeled back through the lobby to the large front windows, grimy with years of miswashing and, the last few years, no washing at all. 2017, Terence Kuch, Exit 4, page 7:
   • The tinkling music of dishes miswashed 2017, Anthony C Murphy, “Music and Laughter”, in Scoppetry:
   • Two volumes of Elia have been spoilt by the man to whom they were entrusted, by miswashing sheets sent to him to clean. 1969, Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, The Journals of Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, 1879-1922, page 42:

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