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Misgrow vs Misgrown - What's the difference?

misgrow | misgrown |

As verbs the difference between misgrow and misgrown

is that misgrow is (ambitransitive) to grow incorrectly or amiss while misgrown is .

As an adjective misgrown is

grown out of shape; misshapen.

misgrow

English

Verb

  • (ambitransitive) To grow incorrectly or amiss.
  • *1940 , Charles Sherrington, Man on his Nature :
    • Fingers or toes may misgrow club-like together. One kidney may fail. The head may contain practically no brain.
  • *1966 , Benedetto Croce, Philosophy, poetry, history :
    • The notion was that thereafter the first poetic language decayed and misgrew into workaday language, of merely instrumental usefulness, and only from time to time was it by the miracle of genius rediscovered by some few who were able to [...]
  • *1995 , Erin Belieu, Infanta :
    • The Spring Burials Violets growing through the asphalt mean the usual of spring's predicament: how, busy getting born, still wings and green will falter, twist, misgrow their management and die.

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    misgrown

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • .

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Grown out of shape; misshapen.