Meaning of misspeed | Babel Free

Definitions

To fail in an attempt to speed something along.

Examples

“Is there anything in which the nurse has failed? the hostess come⟳ short? the huntress missped? the pretty waiter-girl blundered?”

“I think⟳ a majority of collisions on the water arise⟳ from an officer, as the common thing is, misspeeding himself, or giving an order⟳ to port when he means to say⟳ starboard, or from a man at the helm who has been there for some time with nothing to do specially suddenly getting an order⟳ and shoving his wheel the wrong way.”

“"Weep⟳ for yourselves," he said, And our eyes are full of tears; But ' tis for our plans missped, Not for our wasted years.”

“Now all my grief has come⟳ to naught, my plans have⟳ all missped; All that I see⟳ is injury and misery widespread.”

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