"misgive" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: misgives [present, singular, third-person], misgiving [participle, present], misgave [past], misgiven [participle, past]
Etymology: from mis- + give, from Middle English give (“suggest, give”). Compare given and what gives. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mis|give}} mis- + give, {{inh|en|enm|give||suggest, give}} Middle English give (“suggest, give”) Head templates: {{en-verb|misgives|misgiving|misgave|misgiven}} misgive (third-person singular simple present misgives, present participle misgiving, simple past misgave, past participle misgiven)
  1. (transitive, archaic) (of the mind, heart, etc.) To give fear or doubt to; to make irresolute. Tags: archaic, transitive Translations (to give fear or doubt to): 使擔心 (Chinese Mandarin), 使担心 (shǐ dānxīn) (Chinese Mandarin), 使不安 (shǐ bù'ān) (Chinese Mandarin), aavistaa pahaa (Finnish), epäillä (Finnish), внуша́ть опасе́ния (vnušátʹ opasénija) (Russian), слутити [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), slutiti [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-misgive-en-verb-6UmKBRrR Disambiguation of 'to give fear or doubt to': 61 24 15
  2. (transitive, archaic) To suspect; to dread. Tags: archaic, transitive
    Sense id: en-misgive-en-verb-3wVMSJzd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with mis-, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 43 29 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with mis-: 31 42 28 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 21 58 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 17 63 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 74 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 12 75 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 13 74 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 13 73 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 11 78 12
  3. (transitive, archaic) To give wrongly; to give or grant amiss. Tags: archaic, transitive
    Sense id: en-misgive-en-verb-0WKvc3Om
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: misgiving

Inflected forms

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