Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make wrongly; spoil in the making: as, to
mismake a dress.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, obsolete To
unmake ;depose . - verb transitive To
shape orform improperly ;make badly oramiss ;spoil inmaking . - verb transitive, reflexive To
disturb (oneself); put (oneself) out.
Etymologies
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From Middle English mismaken, equivalent to mis- + make. Cognate with Dutch mismaken ("to defeature, deform"), German missmachen ("to fail to make").
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