"miscancel" meaning in English

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        "3": "cancel"
      },
      "expansion": "mis- + cancel",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mis- + cancel.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "miscancels",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscancelling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscanceling",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscancelled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscancelled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscanceled",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscanceled",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "past2": "miscanceled",
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        "pres_ptc2": "miscanceling",
        "pres_ptc2_qual": "US"
      },
      "expansion": "miscancel (third-person singular simple present miscancels, present participle miscancelling or (US) miscanceling, simple past and past participle miscancelled or (US) miscanceled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "_dis": "66 34",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1911, Ainslee's - Volume 26, page 137:",
          "text": "No one will ever discover it, and, if they do, the lady has only to say that she stupidly miscanceled.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Klaus Wandelt, Surface and Interface Science, Volumes 1 and 2:",
          "text": "The optical path external to the UHV chamber has to be purged with dry air, or held at rough vacuum, so that water vapor and CO₂ levels in the optical path are held at a constant level to avoid miscanceled absorptions obscuring vital parts of the IR spectrum.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cancel by mistake."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "cancel",
          "cancel"
        ],
        [
          "by mistake",
          "by mistake"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1973, Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Medica - Volume 19, page 287:",
          "text": "The prescriptions are sometimes irresponsibly written by general practitioners. We usually find miscancelled prescriptions arranged for the purpose of abuse.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, The Book Collector - Volume 32, page 52:",
          "text": "So many copies have come down to us in which the title-page of the preliminaries is miscancelled, indeed , that it is surprising that we know of only one in which the earlier title-page is bound as printed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, American Philatelist and Year Book of the American Philatelic Association, Volume 121, page 120:",
          "text": "Over a period of about two months, which encompassed more than 20,000 pieces of incoming mail to one company, I was able to determine that more than seven percent of automated letter mail either was not being canceled or was being miscanceled enough to miss the stamps.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a mistake in the process of cancelling."
      ],
      "id": "en-miscancel-en-verb-paGEN~45",
      "links": [
        [
          "cancel",
          "cancel"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "miscancel"
}

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    "English verbs",
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mis- + cancel.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "miscancels",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscancelling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscanceling",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscancelled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscancelled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscanceled",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscanceled",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "++",
        "past2": "miscanceled",
        "past2_qual": "US",
        "pres_ptc2": "miscanceling",
        "pres_ptc2_qual": "US"
      },
      "expansion": "miscancel (third-person singular simple present miscancels, present participle miscancelling or (US) miscanceling, simple past and past participle miscancelled or (US) miscanceled)",
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1911, Ainslee's - Volume 26, page 137:",
          "text": "No one will ever discover it, and, if they do, the lady has only to say that she stupidly miscanceled.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Klaus Wandelt, Surface and Interface Science, Volumes 1 and 2:",
          "text": "The optical path external to the UHV chamber has to be purged with dry air, or held at rough vacuum, so that water vapor and CO₂ levels in the optical path are held at a constant level to avoid miscanceled absorptions obscuring vital parts of the IR spectrum.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cancel by mistake."
      ],
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        [
          "cancel",
          "cancel"
        ],
        [
          "by mistake",
          "by mistake"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1973, Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Medica - Volume 19, page 287:",
          "text": "The prescriptions are sometimes irresponsibly written by general practitioners. We usually find miscancelled prescriptions arranged for the purpose of abuse.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, The Book Collector - Volume 32, page 52:",
          "text": "So many copies have come down to us in which the title-page of the preliminaries is miscancelled, indeed , that it is surprising that we know of only one in which the earlier title-page is bound as printed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, American Philatelist and Year Book of the American Philatelic Association, Volume 121, page 120:",
          "text": "Over a period of about two months, which encompassed more than 20,000 pieces of incoming mail to one company, I was able to determine that more than seven percent of automated letter mail either was not being canceled or was being miscanceled enough to miss the stamps.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a mistake in the process of cancelling."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cancel",
          "cancel"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "miscancel"
}