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单词 misspend
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misspendv.

Brit. /ˌmɪsˈspɛnd/, U.S. /ˌmɪ(s)ˈspɛnd/
Inflections: Past tense and past participle misspent;
Forms: Middle English misspende, Middle English myssespende, Middle English mysspende, Middle English–1500s myspend, Middle English–1500s myspende, Middle English–1700s mispend, 1500s mispende, 1500s– misspend; also Scottish pre-1700 mispend, pre-1700 mispent. Past tense 1500s mysspent, 1600s mispent; also Scottish pre-1700 mispendit, pre-1700 mispent, pre-1700 misspendit, pre-1700 myspendit, pre-1700 myspent, pre-1700 mysspendit. Past participle Middle English misspend, Middle English myspend, Middle English myspendid, Middle English myspent, Middle English myspente, Middle English mysspende, Middle English mysspended, Middle English mysspendid, Middle English mysspendyd, Middle English mysspent, Middle English–1800s mispent, Middle English– misspent; also Scottish pre-1700 mispendit, pre-1700 mispent, pre-1700 misspendit, pre-1700 myspendit, pre-1700 myspent, pre-1700 mysspendit.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mis- prefix1, spend v.1
Etymology: < mis- prefix1 + spend v.1 Compare misspending n., and earlier misspene v.
transitive. To spend badly, wastefully, or inappropriately; to make a bad, useless, or wasteful expenditure of.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > squander [verb (transitive)]
forspendc893
scatter1154
dispend1303
waste1340
misspendc1390
miswastec1400
consumec1425
waste1474
profund1527
lasha1535
prodige1538
lavish1542
to play away1562
riot1566
embezzle1578
dilapidate1590
squander1593
confound1598
to make ducks and drakes of or withc1600
prodigalize1611
profuse1611
squander1611
paddle1616
bezzle1617
to run out of ——1622
to piss away1628
prodigal1628
decoct1629
to bangle (away)1632
debauch1632
deboise1632
to fribble away1633
to fool out1635
to run outa1640
to fiddle away1667
slattera1681
dissipate1682
to play off1693
duck-and-drake1700
liquidate1702
sparkle away1703
waster1821
befool1861
to frivol away1866
to play (at) duck and drake with1872
to fling away1873
mislive1887
slather1904
mucker1928
profligate1938
peter1956
spaff2002
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > mis-spend
misspenec1300
dispend1303
misspendc1390
misdispenda1393
bespend1567
c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 166 Merci þat I haue mis-spent Mi wittes fyue!
c1450 W. Lichefeld Complaint of God (Lamb. 853) 237 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 207 I haue myspendid my ȝong age In synne, & wantownesse.
c1480 (a1400) St. Pelagia 44 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 205 Scho þat welth & þat beute myspendit in sic degre, þat [etc.].
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxx. f. lxxxxvii Gouernours therof mysspent the Patrymony therof, in Excesse.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 638/1 Myspende nat your monay, you may happe to have nede of it.
1597 Pilgrimage Parnassus (1886) v. 19 I have beene guiltie of mispending some time in philosophie.
c1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 419 More thousands to debosh and mispend nor [etc.].
1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. d1v Some similitude, which diverts..your attention from the main Subject, and mispends it on some trivial Image.
a1721 M. Prior On Pretty Madwoman i Our grief's misplac'd, our tears mis-spent.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. i. iii. 10 I should grossly mispend my Time in writing so voluminous a Work. View more context for this quotation
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. xxvii. 21 His early youth, mispent in maddest whim.
1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vi. 15 [They] vowed to accept no benefice, lest they should misspend the property of the poor.
1874 A. Trollope Phineas Redux I. xiii. 109 Not a penny had been misspent by the Finnites.
1952 Amer. Hist. Rev. 57 309 He did not misspend time and energy in the futile attempt to establish ‘fundamental causes’.
1992 Entrepreneur Mar. 53/1 The travelholic doesn't necessarily misspend the company's money on first-class air.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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