MISTIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mistime mean? 

• MISTIME (verb)
  The verb MISTIME has 1 sense:

1. time incorrectly

  Familiarity information: MISTIME used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISTIME (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they mistime    ... he / she / it mistimes   
Past simple: mistimed   
Past participle: mistimed   
-ing form: mistiming   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Time incorrectly

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

She mistimed the marathon runner

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

clock; time (measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

mistiming (something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred)

 Context examples 

The results suggest that these mistimed IEDs disrupt a brain network that’s essential for memory and reveal a time window for potential intervention in the altered communication between brain regions.

(Seizures disrupt memory network, NIH)

A brief address on those occasions would not be mistimed, wherein a judicious instructor would take the opportunity of referring to the sufferings of the primitive Christians; to the torments of martyrs; to the exhortations of our blessed Lord Himself, calling upon His disciples to take up their cross and follow Him; to His warnings that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God; to His divine consolations, If ye suffer hunger or thirst for My sake, happy are ye.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)