mishappen

English

Etymology

From Middle English mishapnen, equivalent to mis- +‎ happen.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɪsˈhap(ə)n/
• Rhymes: -æpən

Verb

mishappen (third-person singular simple present mishappens, present participle mishappening, simple past and past participle mishappened)

1. (obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
2. (now rare) To happen through misfortune.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     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.

3. (intransitive) To happen ill; fare ill.