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# misdo

«misdo» in Mova's school dictionary: **To do something wrongly or badly** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (misdo, misdoes, misdid, misdone, misdoing — rare, old-fashioned)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (rare, old use) To do something wrongly or badly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misdo/#m1)

2) (rare, old use) To do wrong; to behave badly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misdo/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Very rarely used today; you may meet it in old books. The noun «misdoing» (a wrong action, usually «misdoings») is more common. In everyday English say «do something wrong» or «make a mistake». Phrases: misdoings (wrong actions).

### examples

- To misdo a task is to do it wrongly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misdo/#x1)
- The old book said he would never misdo again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misdo/#x2)
- The villain's misdoings were found out at last. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misdo/#x3)
- «I have misdone,» confessed the knight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misdo/#x4)
- If you misdo the steps, the cake will not rise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misdo/#x5)
- Her misdoings were forgiven by the village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misdo/#x6)

### note

Irregular, like «do»: misdid, misdone. Rare and old-fashioned; better to say «do it wrong». «Mis-» means wrongly (misspell, misunderstand). Pronounced mis-DOO.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «misdo» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misdo/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.