mishappen
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /mɪsˈhap(ə)n/
mishappen (mishappens, present participle mishappening; past and past participle mishappened)
- (obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
- (now rare) To happen through misfortune.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iii:
- His fearefull friends weare out the wofull night, / Ne dare to weepe, nor seeme to vnderstand / The heauie hap, which on them is alight, / Affraid, least to themselues the like mishappen might.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iii:
- (intransitive) To happen ill; fare ill.
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