Mismove

Quick meaning: Mismove is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To move wrongly, incorrectly, or in error.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To move wrongly, incorrectly, or in error.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England) To disturb; trouble; to disconcert; alarm; flurry.
2. A wrong move.

Example Sentences

She could card silks accurately, and even pick up with the needle's eye the fine end in the broken cocoon, and wind it ofl and reel it with a hand that never wavered or mismoved.”

The only drawback, the only mismove that has been made by Gilmore on this campaigne was the false + fatal one of attacking by Storm the hell-hole “Wagner” on the night of July 18/63.

Good morra, Willie," says he, with the same old vicious smile. "Good morra and good luck," says Willie, as little as ever mismoved, "won't ye sit down and have a pick of dinner with us?"

Yet as I read what took place there, I had the feeling something very important was going on, that perhaps if Christ had made the slightest mismove, it might have been all up for humanity.

Word Forms

• mismoves
• mismoving
• mismoved
• mismave

Synonyms for mismove

Depending on context, synonyms include dismay.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include misstep, mislodge, misfile, misset, misword, miswalk.

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