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miswear

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To wear badly or wrongly.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, rare

Examples

  • c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court the people buy in effect chaffe for corn , for that which is miswrought will miswear

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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From mis- + wear.