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Meaning of miswend | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To go wrong; to stray.

obsolete

Examples

“It sitteth not in no maner wyse / A thefe for theft to syt in iudgement, / A lecherous man a lechour to chastise, / Nor he that hath al his lyfe spent / In waste & riote forfeted and miswent.”
“I now forsake the former tyme I spent. / And sorie am, for that I was miswent.”
“But things miscounselled must needs miswend.”

CEFR level

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