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MISSPEND
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Irregular inflected form: misspent
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they misspend ... he / she / it misspends
Past simple: misspent
Past participle: misspent
-ing form: misspending
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spend (money or other resources) unwisely
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "misspend" is one way to...):
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Spend time badly or unwisely
Example:
He misspent his youth
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "misspend" is one way to...):
drop; expend; spend (pay out)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
