mistend

present singular third person mistends · participle present mistending · participle past mistended · past mistended

1. To tend poorly

   The long view of the place as tended and mistended by generations of precursors allows him to inhabit it with awareness and care.

   2014, Nigel Wood, David Lodge, Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, Routledge, →ISBN

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   All over asia, one sees disease and bodily injury so untended, or what is worse, mistended, that the resultant condition is as dreadfu as it is intolerable.·

   1907, Arthur Judson Brown, The Foreign Missionary: An Incarnation of a World Movement, page 365

   In the R. G. Winslow the vessel was being loaded with grain from an elevator, the grain flowing into the ship by its own gravity through a pipe which was mistended on board the vessel by the mate, as a result of which mistending some of the grain was lost.

   1939, Gustavus Hill Robinson, Handbook of Admiralty Law in the United States, page 492

   They freely employed the techniques of the carnival and the stage, with accomplices planted in the crowd, prearranged mistending of the fire to darken the scene at the crucial moment, and so on.

   1997, Philip Morrison, Nothing Is Too Wonderful to Be True, page 55