misattend

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ attend

Verb

misattend (third-person singular simple present misattends, present participle misattending, simple past and past participle misattended)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To misunderstand; to disregard.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for misattend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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