"mismend" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From mis- + mend.",
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      "form": "mismends",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "mismending",
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    {
      "form": "mismended",
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    {
      "form": "mismended",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1856, William Arundell Harris, The Pilgrim Minstrel, and Wreck of the John, Emigrant Ship, on the Manacle Rocks, May 2nd, 1855, page x:",
          "text": "A flash of something like a look of scorn darted from under the brows of the cynical Grindlines, his very nose curled with angry disapprobation, as he threw down a pen which he had been mending or mismending, and muttered — A - M - P - L - I - T - I - C - A - T - I - O - N !!",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Nancy Anne Dyer, Tokugawa to Meiji Japan: a Resource Guide for Teachers, page 140:",
          "text": "He cannot see well, mislays his glasses, and frequently mismends the nets.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Clive Barker, Galilee, page 80:",
          "text": "They walked with an ease that bespoke strength, bespoke limbs that had never been cracked and mismended, never felt the ravages of age.",
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        "To mend improperly; to attempt to fix without success."
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          "mend",
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        "(transitive) To mend improperly; to attempt to fix without success."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mismend"
}

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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mis- + mend.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mismends",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mismending",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
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      "form": "mismended",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mismended",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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          "ref": "1856, William Arundell Harris, The Pilgrim Minstrel, and Wreck of the John, Emigrant Ship, on the Manacle Rocks, May 2nd, 1855, page x:",
          "text": "A flash of something like a look of scorn darted from under the brows of the cynical Grindlines, his very nose curled with angry disapprobation, as he threw down a pen which he had been mending or mismending, and muttered — A - M - P - L - I - T - I - C - A - T - I - O - N !!",
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        },
        {
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          "text": "He cannot see well, mislays his glasses, and frequently mismends the nets.",
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        },
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          "text": "They walked with an ease that bespoke strength, bespoke limbs that had never been cracked and mismended, never felt the ravages of age.",
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        }
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        "To mend improperly; to attempt to fix without success."
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        "(transitive) To mend improperly; to attempt to fix without success."
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  "word": "mismend"
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