Meaning

1 senses

  1. To hold wrongly, badly, or amiss; lose hold (of); abuse; neglect.

Origin

From Middle English misholden, from Old English mishealdan (“not to keep, to neglect, be c

From Middle English misholden, from Old English mishealdan (“not to keep, to neglect, be careless”), equivalent to mis- + hold.

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Forms

misholds, misholding, misheld, misheld
Base formmishold · to mishold
3rd person singularmisholds
Present participlemisholding
Past simplemisheld
Past participlemisheld

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymishold
he, she, itmisholds

Past simpleLesson

all personsmisheld

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill mishold

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mishapmishearmishmashmisinformmisinformationmisinterpretmisjudge

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