"misheal" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: misheals [present, singular, third-person], mishealing [participle, present], mishealed [participle, past], mishealed [past]
Etymology: mis- + heal Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mis|heal}} mis- + heal Head templates: {{en-verb}} misheal (third-person singular simple present misheals, present participle mishealing, simple past and past participle mishealed)
  1. (intransitive) To heal improperly. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-misheal-en-verb-c-fAqmpn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms prefixed with mis-, English terms with consonant pseudo-digraphs Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 56 44 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 71 29 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with mis-: 59 41 Disambiguation of English terms with consonant pseudo-digraphs: 66 34
  2. (rare, trannsitive) To provide the incorrect treatment to someone one is attempting to heal. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-misheal-en-verb-pzS5yvsI

Inflected forms

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