misstring

present singular third person misstrings · participle present misstringing · participle past misstrung · past misstrung

1. To string incorrectly.

   These days, our two-part harmony feels more like a single instrument misstrung in the caught breath of a connoisseur.

   2022, Corinne T. Field, LaKisha Michelle Simmons, The Global History of Black Girlhood

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   If you've misstrung a bead in the middle of a row, you can break it with the pliers, but grab it sideways at the holes above the weft, not from top to.

   1989, Threads Magazine - Issues 20-25, page 67

   Percepts do not appear to be strung together, because brain damaged patients do not report them to be misstrung (say, a cat with paws protruding from its head and its ears on its tail).

   1998 Spring, Marcel Kinsbourne, “Unity and diversity in the human brain: evidence from injury”, in Daedalus, volume 127, number 2