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misspendmis‧spend /ˌmɪsˈspend/ verb (past tense and past participle misspent /-ˈspent/) [transitive] VERB TABLEmisspend |
Present | I, you, we, they | misspend | | he, she, it | misspends | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | misspent | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have misspent | | he, she, it | has misspent | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had misspent | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will misspend | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have misspent |
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Present | I | am misspending | | he, she, it | is misspending | | you, we, they | are misspending | Past | I, he, she, it | was misspending | | you, we, they | were misspending | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been misspending | | he, she, it | has been misspending | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been misspending | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be misspending | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been misspending |
- Their business manager misspent millions of the couple's money.
► a misspent youth (=spent doing things that were bad or not useful)· He is trying to make up for his misspent youth. ► misspent youth- Trying to make up for his misspent youth.
- You can scarcely regret your misspent youth while still misspending it.
1misspent youth someone who had a misspent youth wasted their time or behaved badly when they were young – often used humorously2to use time or money badly or wrongly: Carey admitted misspending company funds. |