Meaning

2 senses

  1. To rain in fine drops; to mizzle.

  2. (humorous, nonstandard, rare)To mislead.

Origin

Probably a blend of mist + drizzle. From misled, the standard irregular past tense of mis

Probably a blend of mist + drizzle.

From misled, the standard irregular past tense of mislead, being misconstrued as *misle + -ed.

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Forms

misles, misling, misled, misled
Base formmisle · to misle
3rd person singularmisles
Present participlemisling
Past simplemisled
Past participlemisled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymisle
he, she, itmisles

Past simpleLesson

all personsmisled

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill misle

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
misinterpretmisjudgemislabelmislaymisleadB1mismanagemismanagement

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