Meaning

1 senses

  1. To govern badly or wrongly.

    govern badly

Forms

misgoverns, misgoverning, misgoverned, misgoverned
Base formmisgovern · to misgovern
3rd person singularmisgoverns
Present participlemisgoverning
Past simplemisgoverned
Past participlemisgoverned

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymisgovern
he, she, itmisgoverns

Past simpleLesson

all personsmisgoverned

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave misgoverned
he, she, ithas misgoverned

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill misgovern

Word family

3 related words
Relatedmisgovernment
Derivedmisgovernancemisgovernor

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
misfitmisfortuneB2misgendermisgivingmisguidemishandlemishap

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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