mistrain

verb

mistrain

verb

UK /mɪsˈtɹeɪn/

Etymology From mis- + train.

1

To draw (something) badly or in the wrong direction.

For she by force is still fro me detayned, / And with corruptfull brybes is to untruth mis-trayned.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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