Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To turn aside wrongly; pervert.
- To go wrong.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To turn amiss; to pervert.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
turn wrongly or incorrectly; turn aside wrongly;pervert . - verb intransitive To
go wrong; make a wrong turn. - noun a
wrong turn .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Oh-Pshaw, completely demoralized, made one misturn after the other.
The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit Or, over the Top with the Winnebagos 1924
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At one of the dim cross-roads they had made a misturn, and were now wandering around without the slightest notion of where they were going.
The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping 1924
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One day, happy day, we toiled by carriage, between light-colored walls, sometimes too high for any view, -- that once caused my mother a three hours 'walk, because of a misturn, -- over little hot, dusty roads, out and up to the villa.
Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888
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"He will never turn ne misturn more," said the messenger.
The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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