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mislabour

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mis-labour
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To work badly or wrongly; to mismanage and thereby damage (farmland, etc.).

Archaic; Transitive verb

Etymology

From mis- + labour.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

mislabours (present, singular) mislabouring (participle, present) mislaboured (participle, past) mislaboured (past)

Questions

What does mislabour mean?
To work badly or wrongly; to mismanage and thereby damage (farmland, etc.).
Where does mislabour come from?
From mis- + labour.

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