misspread

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ spread.

Verb

misspread (third-person singular simple present misspreads, present participle misspreading, simple past and past participle misspread)

1. To spread incorrectly or inappropriately.
   • 1790, Anthony Pasquin (psudonym of John Williams), A Postscript to the New Bath Guide. A poem, page 82:

     Never shall Obloquy your mansion seek, Or Anguish blight the roses on your cheek; Nor vagrant Zephyr insolent misspread The hazel-curling tresses of thy envied head!

   • 1987, Ligna Technologies Ltd, Alberta. Canadian Forestry Service, Report on Cement Bonded Particleboard, Its Applications and a Preliminary Assessment of a Plant to be Located in Alberta, page 7:

     Misspread material is fed back to the forming station.

   • 1992, National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board, Foundation Engineering, page 39:

     Back brooming to redistribute and realign any misspread aggregate was also carried out.

   • 2022 July 28, Luis Rueda Carillo, Klepper Alfrdo Garcia, Nilufer Yalcin, Manan Shah, “Ketamine and its emergence in the field of neurology”, in Cureus:

     Once widely misspread, the belief that ketamine causes ICP elevation has been disproven, leading to its resurgence in the field of medicine.

Noun

misspread (plural misspreads)

1. An instance of misspreading.
   • 1987, Ligna Technologies Ltd, Alberta. Canadian Forestry Service, Report on Cement Bonded Particleboard, Its Applications and a Preliminary Assessment of a Plant to be Located in Alberta, page 7:

     The weight is controlled in order to reject misspreads.

Anagrams

• misparsed, misdrapes