"misdread" meaning in English

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Verb

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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        "1": "en",
        "2": "mis",
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mis- + dread.",
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    {
      "form": "misdreads",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misdreading",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "misdreaded",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misdreaded",
      "tags": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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        {
          "ref": "1597-8, Bishop Hall, Sat., Defiance to Envie, 25",
          "text": "Needs me then hope, or doth me need misdread?"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1606, G. Woodcocke, Hist. Iustine, xxxi, 104",
          "text": "To auoyd a mischiefe which he misdreaded."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1632, Flavius Josephus, The Famous and Memorable Works of Iosephus, etc, page 711",
          "text": "and the Romanes likewise misdreaded that the Iewes should inuade their campe."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1926, Ernest Hamilton, Launcelot: A Romance of the Court of King Arthur, page 278",
          "text": "\"Of that I misdreaded,\" said he, \"for full well wist I that either he would rescue her or else he would die in the field; and, to say the truth, he had not been a man of worship had he not rescued the Queen, …\""
        }
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        "To dread."
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        "(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To dread."
      ],
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        "intransitive",
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/mɪsˈdɹɛd/"
    }
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mis- + dread.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "misdreads",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misdreading",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misdreaded",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misdreaded",
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        {
          "ref": "1597-8, Bishop Hall, Sat., Defiance to Envie, 25",
          "text": "Needs me then hope, or doth me need misdread?"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1606, G. Woodcocke, Hist. Iustine, xxxi, 104",
          "text": "To auoyd a mischiefe which he misdreaded."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1632, Flavius Josephus, The Famous and Memorable Works of Iosephus, etc, page 711",
          "text": "and the Romanes likewise misdreaded that the Iewes should inuade their campe."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1926, Ernest Hamilton, Launcelot: A Romance of the Court of King Arthur, page 278",
          "text": "\"Of that I misdreaded,\" said he, \"for full well wist I that either he would rescue her or else he would die in the field; and, to say the truth, he had not been a man of worship had he not rescued the Queen, …\""
        }
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      ],
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      "ipa": "/mɪsˈdɹɛd/"
    }
  ],
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}

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