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Webster 1913 Edition


Misturn

Mis-turn′

,
Verb.
T.
To turn amiss; to pervert.

Webster 1828 Edition


Misturn

MISTURN'

,
Verb.
T.
To pervert. [Not used.]

Definition 2024


misturn

misturn

English

Verb

misturn (third-person singular simple present misturns, present participle misturning, simple past and past participle misturned)

  1. (transitive) To turn wrongly or incorrectly; turn aside wrongly; pervert.
  2. (intransitive) To go wrong; make a wrong turn.

Noun

misturn (plural misturns)

  1. a wrong turn.
    • 1916, Hildegard G. Frey, The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods:
      At one of the dim cross-roads they had made a misturn, and were now wandering around without the slightest notion of where they were going.
    • 1919, Hildegard G. Frey, The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit:
      They heroically struggled through the remainder of the figure, but Oh-Pshaw, completely demoralized, made one misturn after the other.