"misenunciate" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "mis- + enunciate",
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      "form": "misenunciates",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "misenunciating",
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    },
    {
      "form": "misenunciated",
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        "participle",
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    {
      "form": "misenunciated",
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          "ref": "1924, John Edward Wallace Wallin, The Education of Handicapped Children, page 124",
          "text": "The training is not primarily intended for children who merely mispronounce or misenunciate or express themselves inaptly, unidiomatically and incorrectly for reasons other than defects of speech.",
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          "ref": "1935, Howard Roscoe Driggs, Living English: For Junior High Schools - Volume 1, page 151",
          "text": "What common words are usually misenunciated because of failure to open the mouth properly?",
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        {
          "ref": "1948, Harry Joseph Heltman, Handbook for Remedial Speech, page 110",
          "text": "In the method recommended here, when the sounds in nonsense combinations are larned no act of attention is required to repeat them, and when once a sequence of sounds which are used as part of a word is easily enunciated it slips into the formerly misenunciated word and makes it correct without any conscious effort on the part of the pupil.",
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          "ref": "1996, G. Stewart, C. de Kock, M. Smit, Communicating for the Professions, page 97",
          "text": "It has been my experience that South Africans misenunciate more than half of these vowel sounds.",
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        "To mispronounce due to poor articulation."
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      ]
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  "word": "misenunciate"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "mis- + enunciate",
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    {
      "form": "misenunciates",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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        "participle",
        "present"
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      "form": "misenunciated",
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        "participle",
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    },
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