misspread

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English

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Etymology

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From mis- +‎ spread.

Verb

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misspread (third-person singular simple present misspreads, present participle misspreading, simple past and past participle misspread)

  1. To spread incorrectly or inappropriately.
    • 1790, Anthony Pasquin (psudonym of John Williams), A Postscript to the New Bath Guide. A poem, page 82:
      Never shall Obloquy your mansion seek, Or Anguish blight the roses on your cheek; Nor vagrant Zephyr insolent misspread The hazel-curling tresses of thy envied head!
    • 1987, Ligna Technologies Ltd, Alberta. Canadian Forestry Service, Report on Cement Bonded Particleboard, Its Applications and a Preliminary Assessment of a Plant to be Located in Alberta, page 7:
      Misspread material is fed back to the forming station.
    • 1992, National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board, Foundation Engineering, page 39:
      Back brooming to redistribute and realign any misspread aggregate was also carried out.
    • 2022 July 28, Luis Rueda Carillo, Klepper Alfrdo Garcia, Nilufer Yalcin, Manan Shah, “Ketamine and its emergence in the field of neurology”, in Cureus:
      Once widely misspread, the belief that ketamine causes ICP elevation has been disproven, leading to its resurgence in the field of medicine.

Noun

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misspread (plural misspreads)

  1. An instance of misspreading.
    • 1987, Ligna Technologies Ltd, Alberta. Canadian Forestry Service, Report on Cement Bonded Particleboard, Its Applications and a Preliminary Assessment of a Plant to be Located in Alberta, page 7:
      The weight is controlled in order to reject misspreads.

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