misaimv.
/ˌmɪsˈeɪm/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈeɪm/ transitive. To aim badly or amiss.
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misaim1813
1813 W. Scott Rokeby iv. 186 Some tale..of shaft mis-aimed.
1960 G. Kinnell What Kingdom it Was 72 Sky-flowers, dirt-flowers, underdirt-flowers..equally uprooted, Maimed, lopped, shucked, and misaimed.
1993 Callaloo 16 901 It might be objected that I am taking what is peculiar to the present state of the universities to be typical of what they are or have always been. Such an objection would be mis-aimed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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