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Meaning of misgrow | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To grow incorrectly or amiss.

ambitransitive

Examples

“Fingers or toes may misgrow club-like together. One kidney may fail. The head may contain practically no brain.”
“The notion was that thereafter the first poetic language decayed and misgrew into workaday language, of merely instrumental usefulness, and only from time to time was it by the miracle of genius rediscovered by some few who were able to [...]”
“The Spring Burials Violets growing through the asphalt mean the usual of spring's predicament: how, busy getting born, still wings and green will falter, twist, misgrow their management and die.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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