misturn

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/mɪsˈtɜː(ɹ)n//ˈmɪstɜː(ɹ)n/

verb

To turn wrongly or incorrectly; turn aside wrongly; pervert.

OriginMiddle English misturnen →
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Meanings

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

present singular third person misturns · participle present misturning · participle past misturned · past misturned

  1. transitiveTo turn wrongly or incorrectly; turn aside wrongly; pervert.
  2. intransitiveTo go wrong; make a wrong turn.
nounmisturn (plural misturns)

plural misturns

  1. A wrong turn.

    They heroically struggled through the remainder of the figure, but Oh-Pshaw, completely demoralized, made one misturn after the other.

    1919, Hildegard G. Frey, The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit
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    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.

    1916, Hildegard G. Frey, The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods

Origin

  1. Middle Englishmisturnen
  2. Englishmisturn

From Middle English misturnen, mistournen, mistornen, equivalent to mis- + turn.

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APA

misturn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misturn

MLA

“misturn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misturn. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misturn,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misturn.

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