"misclimb" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: misclimbs [present, singular, third-person], misclimbing [participle, present], misclimbed [participle, past], misclimbed [past]
Rhymes: -aɪm Etymology: mis- + climb Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mis|climb}} mis- + climb Head templates: {{en-verb}} misclimb (third-person singular simple present misclimbs, present participle misclimbing, simple past and past participle misclimbed)
  1. To make a mistake while climbing; to climb too far or in the wrong direction.
    Sense id: en-misclimb-en-verb-BrI4OzIT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with mis-

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1909, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Thomas Common, Thus Spoke Zarathustra",
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          "ref": "1981, Marilyn Singer, The Fanatic's Ecstatic Aromatic Guide to Onions, Garlic, Shallots, and Leeks, page 180",
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          "text": "This certainty stems from my acquaitance and freindship with him, of course, like a tree sprung from the earth up there in my woodlot; and even before this new journey of his begins, I can surely misclimb — out on a limb myself — and wonder: What's that crazy fellow going to do next?",
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          "ref": "2014, Paul Celan, Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry, page 27",
          "text": "it, water-clear, claps itself over the freedom that climbed with me, that misclimbed too high, on which one of the heavens gorged itself, that I let vault above the worddrenched image orbit, blood orbit.",
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