MISSPEND (misspent)

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Irregular inflected form: misspent   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does misspend mean? 

• MISSPEND (verb)
  The verb MISSPEND has 2 senses:

1. spend time badly or unwisely

2. spend (money or other resources) unwisely

  Familiarity information: MISSPEND used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISSPEND (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they misspend    ... he / she / it misspends   
Past simple: misspent   
Past participle: misspent   
-ing form: misspending   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spend time badly or unwisely

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

He misspent his youth

Hypernyms (to "misspend" is one way to...):

drop; expend; spend (pay out)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spend (money or other resources) unwisely

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "misspend" is one way to...):

drop; expend; spend (pay out)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

And I think that your time will not be misspent, for there are points about the case which promise to make it an absolutely unique one.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They, in their different homes, and their different ways, might be looking back on it with pleasure; but in her view it was a morning more completely misspent, more totally bare of rational satisfaction at the time, and more to be abhorred in recollection, than any she had ever passed.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

So, alternately beating and beaten, they made their dolorous way through the beautiful woods and under the amber arches of the fading beech-trees, where the calm strength and majesty of Nature might serve to rebuke the foolish energies and misspent strivings of mankind.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)