mistrain
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /mɪsˈtɹeɪn/
Verb
mistrain (third-person singular simple present mistrains, present participle mistraining, simple past and past participle mistrained)
- (transitive) To draw (something) badly or in the wrong direction.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:
- For she by force is still fro me detayned, / And with corruptfull brybes is to untruth mis-trayned.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:
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