MISMATE


Meaning of MISMATE in English

“+ verb

Etymology: mis- (I) + mate

transitive verb

: to mate unsuitably

mismated myself for love of you — Thomas Hardy

the awful internal bleeding of mismated lives — Time

a style that mismates Gothic and modern

intransitive verb

: to become wrongly or unsuitably mated

pious men who mismate with the daughters of him “who slew his brother” — Modern Language Notes

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