"misdread" meaning in All languages combined

See misdread on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

IPA: /mɪsˈdɹɛd/ Forms: misdreads [present, singular, third-person], misdreading [participle, present], misdreaded [participle, past], misdreaded [past]
Etymology: From mis- + dread. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mis|dread}} mis- + dread Head templates: {{en-verb}} misdread (third-person singular simple present misdreads, present participle misdreading, simple past and past participle misdreaded)
  1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To dread. Tags: intransitive, obsolete, transitive

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From mis- + dread.",
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    {
      "form": "misdreaded",
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    },
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          "ref": "1597-8, Bishop Hall, Sat., Defiance to Envie, 25",
          "text": "Needs me then hope, or doth me need misdread?"
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          "ref": "1606, G. Woodcocke, Hist. Iustine, xxxi, 104:",
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          "text": "and the Romanes likewise misdreaded that the Iewes should inuade their campe.",
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          "ref": "1926, Ernest Hamilton, Launcelot: A Romance of the Court of King Arthur, page 278:",
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        "(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To dread."
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      "ipa": "/mɪsˈdɹɛd/"
    }
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    }
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}

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