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- misbehave verb (misbehave, misbehaves, misbehaved, misbehaving)
To misbehave means to behave badly, to be naughty or not follow the rules. - misbehaviour noun (misbehaviour — uncountable; US spelling misbehavior)
1) Bad behaviour; doing things you know are not allowed. 2) (formal) Wrong or dishonest conduct, for example by an official. - miscarriage noun (a miscarriage, miscarriages)
When a baby growing inside its mother dies and comes out too early, long before it could live on its own. - mischance noun (mischance, mischances)
Mischance is bad luck, or an unlucky accident that happens by chance. - mischief noun (mischief — uncountable)
Mischief is naughty behaviour that is usually playful and not very harmful, like playing tricks. - mischievous adjective
Liking to play tricks and cause small trouble in a playful way: a mischievous puppy. - misconception noun (a misconception, misconceptions)
1) A wrong idea or belief about something, often one that many people share because they misunderstood it. - misconduct noun (misconduct — uncountable)
Misconduct is bad or wrong behaviour, especially by a person at work or in a responsible job who breaks the rules. - miscount verb (miscount, miscounts, miscounted, miscounting); noun (a miscount, miscounts)
1) To count wrongly; to make a mistake when counting. 2) (noun) A wrong count, especially of votes: «There was a miscount in the election». - miscreant noun (miscreant, miscreants)
A miscreant is a wicked person or a villain who does bad deeds. - misdeed noun (a misdeed, misdeeds)
1) (formal) A wrong or bad action, especially a crime or a breaking of rules. 2) Something naughty or wicked that a person has done. - misdirection noun (misdirection — usually uncountable)
Making people look at or think about the wrong thing so they don't notice what is really happening, used by magicians and tricksters. - misdo verb (misdo, misdoes, misdid, misdone, misdoing — rare, old-fashioned)
1) (rare, old use) To do something wrongly or badly. 2) (rare, old use) To do wrong; to behave badly. - miser noun (miser, misers)
A miser is a person who hoards money and hates to spend it, even when he has plenty. - miserable adjective (miserable, more miserable, most miserable)
1) Miserable means very unhappy. 2) Miserable describes something unpleasant that makes you unhappy, such as miserable weather. 3)… - miserably adverb
In a very unhappy or wretched way; sadly and with misery. - miserly adjective (miserly; more miserly, most miserly)
1) Miserly means very unwilling to spend money or share things; stingy. - misery noun (misery, miseries)
Great unhappiness or suffering, in body or mind. - misfortune noun (a misfortune, misfortunes; also uncountable)
1) Misfortune is bad luck. 2) A misfortune is an unlucky or bad event that happens to someone. - misgiving noun (misgivings)
1) A misgiving is a worry or doubt that something will go wrong, or that a plan is not a good idea. - mishap noun (mishaps)
1) A mishap is a small accident or piece of bad luck that spoils a plan. - misinformation noun (misinformation — uncountable)
Wrong or false information, often spread by mistake. - misinterpret verb (misinterprets, misinterpreted, misinterpreting)
1) To misinterpret is to understand someone's words or actions in the wrong way. - misjudge verb (misjudge, misjudges, misjudged, misjudging)
To misjudge something is to guess wrongly about it, like an amount, a distance or a time. - mislaid verb past form of mislay (mislay, mislays, mislaid, mislaying); adjective (mislaid)
Mislaid means put something somewhere and then could not find it. - mislead verb (mislead, misleads, misled, misleading)
To make someone believe something that is not true, by telling them wrong or unclear things. - misleading adjective (misleading; more misleading, most misleading); verb form (present participle of mislead: mislead, misleads, misled, misleading)
Giving people a wrong idea, even if not every word is a lie. - mismatch noun (a mismatch, mismatches); verb (mismatch, mismatches, mismatched, mismatching)
A situation where two things do not fit together or do not match: «a mismatch between the picture and the words». - misnomer noun (a misnomer, misnomers)
1) A name or word that is wrong or misleading for the thing it describes. - misplaced verb form and adjective (misplace, misplaces, misplaced, misplacing)
Put somewhere and then not able to find it; lost for a while. - misprint noun (a misprint, misprints); verb (misprint, misprints, misprinted, misprinting)
1) A mistake in a printed text, such as a wrong letter, word or number. 2) (verb) To print something wrongly. - mispronounce verb (mispronounce, mispronounces, mispronounced, mispronouncing)
1) To say a word or a name in the wrong way, with the wrong sounds or the wrong stress. - misquote verb (misquote, misquotes, misquoted, misquoting); noun (a misquote, misquotes)
1) To repeat someone's words wrongly, either by mistake or on purpose to change their meaning. 2) (noun) A wrong quotation. - misread verb (misread, misreads, misread, misreading — past forms spelt the same, said «mis-RED»)
1) To misread means to read something wrongly. 2) To misread a situation or a person means to understand them wrongly. - misremember verb (misremember, misremembers, misremembered, misremembering)
1) To misremember something is to remember it wrongly. - misremembered phrase (verb, past: misremember, misremembers, misremembered)
1) (euphemism, official) gave a false account, said something untrue — often to avoid saying «lied». 2) (literal) remembered wrongly. - misrepresent verb (misrepresent, misrepresents, misrepresented, misrepresenting); noun misrepresentation
To misrepresent someone or something means to describe them in a false or unfair way, so others get the wrong idea. - misrepresentation noun (a misrepresentation, misrepresentations; also uncountable)
Giving a false or twisted picture of something, so people believe what is not true. - miss verb (miss, misses, missed, missing); noun (a miss, misses; Miss — a title)
To miss is to fail to hit, catch or reach something: «I missed the ball». - missed verb (past and past participle of miss: miss, misses, missed, missing)
Missed means you did not hit or catch something: He missed the ball. - missile noun (a missile, missiles)
A weapon that flies through the air towards a target, often powered by a rocket and carrying explosives. - missing adjective (missing); verb (-ing form of miss)
Missing means not there, lost, or not yet found. - mission noun (a mission, missions)
A mission is an important job someone is sent to do, often far away, like a space mission or a rescue mission. - missionary noun (a missionary, missionaries); adjective (missionary)
1) (church) A missionary is a person sent by a church or religion to another place to spread their faith, and often to run schools… - missis noun (missises)
1) (old use, dialect) Missis is a spoken form of «missus»: a wife, or a polite way to speak to a woman. - mississippian adjective (Mississippian); noun (a Mississippian, Mississippians)
A Mississippian is a person from the US state of Mississippi. - missouri noun (Missouri) (a name)
1) (a name) Missouri is a state in the middle of the USA. 2) (a name) The Missouri River is the longest river in North America; it flows… - misspell verb (misspell, misspells, misspelled or misspelt, misspelling)
1) To misspell a word is to spell it wrongly. - misspoke phrase (verb, past: misspeak, misspeaks, misspoke, misspoken)
1) (euphemism, official) said something untrue or wrong — often to avoid admitting a lie. 2) (literal) said the wrong word by accident. - misstate verb (misstate, misstates, misstated, misstating)
1) (formal) To say or write something wrongly or falsely, such as facts or numbers, by mistake or on purpose. - misstatement noun (a misstatement, misstatements)
1) A statement that is wrong or not exact, often by accident. 2) (formal) A false figure or claim in an official report or accounts. - misstep noun (a misstep, missteps)
1) A wrong step when walking, which can make you trip or fall. 2) A mistake in what you do or decide. - missus noun (the missus, a missus)
A man's way of talking about his wife or partner: the missus. - missy noun (missy — informal, usually as a form of address)
A way of speaking to a young girl, often in a playful, teasing or slightly cross way: «Listen, missy!». - mist noun (mist, mists); verb (mist, mists, misted, misting)
Lots of tiny drops of water in the air close to the ground, making it hard to see far; a thin kind of fog. - mistake noun (a mistake, mistakes); verb (mistake, mistakes, mistook, mistaken, mistaking)
Something that is wrong, like a wrong answer or a wrong action. - mistaken adjective (mistaken); also the past participle of «mistake» (mistake, mistakes, mistook, mistaken)
Wrong in what you think or believe: «You are mistaken». - mistakenly adverb (mistakenly)
Because of a mistake; wrongly: «He mistakenly took my bag». - mistletoe noun (no plural)
1) Mistletoe is a plant with white berries that grows on the branches of trees; people hang it up at Christmas. - mistranslate verb (mistranslate, mistranslates, mistranslated, mistranslating)
1) To translate words from one language into another wrongly, so the meaning changes. - mistranslation noun (a mistranslation, mistranslations)
1) A wrong translation from one language into another, where the meaning has been changed by mistake. - mistreated adjective (mistreated); past form of the verb mistreat (mistreat, mistreats, mistreated, mistreating)
1) Treated badly, cruelly or unfairly. 2) Harmed or neglected, as with animals or children who are not cared for properly. - mistreatment noun (uncountable)
1) Mistreatment is treating a person or animal cruelly or unfairly, for example hurting them, starving them or not caring for them. - mistress noun (mistresses)
A mistress is a woman who owns or is in charge of a household, servants or animals. - mistrust noun (no plural); verb (mistrusts, mistrusted, mistrusting)
1) Mistrust is a feeling that someone cannot be trusted or that something is not safe. - misty adjective (misty, mistier, mistiest)
1) Misty means full of mist, so it is hard to see far. 2) Misty eyes are eyes full of tears. 3) Misty can mean unclear, like a misty memory. - misunderstand verb (misunderstand, misunderstands, misunderstood, misunderstanding)
To misunderstand is to understand something wrongly, to get the wrong meaning. - misunderstanding noun (a misunderstanding, misunderstandings); verb form (-ing form of «misunderstand»)
A failure to understand something correctly: «There was a misunderstanding about the time». - misunderstood verb form (past and past participle of misunderstand); adjective (misunderstood)
Misunderstood is the past of misunderstand: understood wrongly. - misuse noun (misuse, misuses) — said mis-YOOS; verb (misuse, misuses, misused, misusing) — said mis-YOOZ
Verb: to use something in a wrong, careless or harmful way. - mite noun (a mite, mites); adverb («a mite» — informal, old-fashioned: a little)
A tiny animal with eight legs, related to spiders, often too small to see: dust mites. - mitigate verb (mitigate, mitigates, mitigated, mitigating)
To make something bad less serious, less painful or less harmful. - mitt noun (a mitt, mitts)
A mitt is a glove with one part for the thumb and one big part for all four fingers together, also called a mitten. - mitten noun (a mitten, mittens)
A mitten is a glove that covers the four fingers together in one part and the thumb in a separate part. - mix verb (mix, mixes, mixed, mixing); noun (a mix, mixes)
To mix is to put different things together so they become one. - mixed adjective (mixed); verb past (mix, mixes, mixed, mixing)
Mixed means made of different kinds put together. - mixer noun (a mixer, mixers)
A machine or tool for mixing things, such as a food mixer in a kitchen or a cement mixer on a building site. - mixture noun (a mixture, mixtures)
A mixture is something made by putting different things together, such as cake mixture or a mixture of colours. - ml abbreviation (ml = millilitre or millilitres; US milliliter)
Short for millilitre, a small unit for measuring liquid; 1000 ml make 1 litre. - mm abbreviation (mm); interjection (mm, mmm)
Mm is the short way to write millimetre, a very tiny unit of length. - mnemonic noun (a mnemonic, mnemonics); adjective (mnemonic)
A mnemonic is a trick that helps you remember something, like a rhyme, a saying or a word made from first letters. - mnemonics noun (mnemonics; a mnemonic)
Mnemonics are tricks that help you remember things, like a rhyme, a sentence or a pattern. - mo noun (informal: a mo = a moment; a mo = a moustache, Australia/NZ); name (Mo); abbreviation (MO, mo.)
«A mo» means a moment, a very short time: «half a mo», «wait a mo». - moa noun (a moa, moas)
A moa was a very large flightless bird that lived only in New Zealand; the tallest kinds stood taller than a person when reaching up. - moan verb (moan, moans, moaned, moaning); noun (a moan, moans)
To make a long low sound because of pain or sadness. - moat noun (a moat, moats)
1) A moat is a deep, wide ditch dug around a castle or town, usually filled with water, to keep enemies out. - mob noun (mob, mobs); verb (mob, mobs, mobbed, mobbing)
A large, noisy, often angry crowd that may become violent. - mobile adjective (mobile); noun (a mobile, mobiles)
Mobile means able to move or be moved easily from place to place. - moccasin noun (moccasins)
1) A moccasin is a soft leather shoe with no hard heel, first worn by Native American peoples. - mocha noun (mocha, uncountable; a mocha, mochas); adjective (mocha)
A coffee drink made with chocolate, hot milk and espresso. - mock verb (mock, mocks, mocked, mocking); adjective (mock = pretend, practice); noun (a mock, mocks — UK: practice exam)
To mock someone means to laugh at them or copy them in an unkind way to make them look silly. - mockery noun (mockery, mockeries)
Laughing at someone or something in an unkind way; teasing. - mocking adjective (mocking); verb form of mock (mock, mocks, mocked, mocking); noun (mocking, uncountable)
Mocking means laughing at someone or something in an unkind way, often by copying how they speak or move. - mockingly adverb
1) Mockingly means in a way that teases or makes fun of someone. - mod noun (a mod, mods); verb (mod, mods, modded, modding — informal); short for «modification», «moderator», «modern»
A change or add-on made to a video game or a machine by players, not by the makers: «a Minecraft mod». - modal adjective (modal); noun (a modal, modals)
1) (grammar) A modal, or modal verb, is a helping verb such as can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will or would, which shows how… - mode noun (a mode, modes)
A way or kind of doing something (mode of transport). - model noun (model, models); verb (model, models, modelled/modeled, modelling/modeling); adjective (a model pupil)
A model is a small copy of something, like a model car, plane or ship. - modelling noun (modelling, uncountable); verb form (-ing form of «model»: model, models, modelled, modelling – UK; modeled, modeling – US)
Making models: small copies of things, or shapes from clay, Plasticine or other materials. - modem noun (a modem, modems)
A box or device that connects a computer or home network to the internet through a phone line, cable or fibre.
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