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misappear

verb

Etymology

From mis- + appear.

  1. derived from *peh₂s-✻
  2. derived from appāreō
  3. derived from aparoir
  4. inherited from apperen
  5. prefixed as misappear — “mis + appear”

Definitions

  1. To give a false appearance

    To give a false appearance; to seem to be something other than the true form.

    • Anon like folks, that have in masks appeared, And seem as changelings, when they put away That foreign garb, in which they misappeared, So changed here to a jubilee more gay
    • But nobody designed things that way, and his restricted options consequently misappear as mere facts.

  2. To appear wrongly

    To appear wrongly; to come into view in the wrong place or at the wrong time.

    • So Bylo scooped the phlegm in the crook of his fetid finger and flung it flush at the young maid's head, though it somehow misappeared behind her in the empty space the trio made.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA