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increase in value.
mismatched
adj. mismated, ill-matched, ill-mated, incompatible, unfit,
inappropriate, unsuited, unsuitable, incongruous, misallied,
disparate, uncongenial, inconsistent, inharmonious, discordant:
With her interest in art and his in football, they made a
mismatched pair.
misprint n. error, mistake, erratum, typographical error, printer's or
printing error, Brit literal, Colloq typo: We cannot publish a
book containing so many misprints.
misrepresent
v. distort, twist, pervert, garble, misstate, mangle, falsify,
belie, disguise, colour: In his report, he misrepresented
everything I said.
miss° v. 1 skip, forgo, absent oneself from, be absent from, fail to
keep; avoid, evade, escape, dodge, Colloq pass up: I missed my
dentist's appointment. I missed school because my grandmother
was ill. 2 long for, yearn for, pine for, feel nostalgia for, be
nostalgic for or about, want, need, wish for: I miss those long
summer evenings by the lake. 3 misunderstand, misinterpret,
misconstrue, misapprehend, fail to understand or perceive,
mistake: You have completely missed the point. 4 Sometimes,
miss out (on). pass up, omit, leave out, slip up (on), overlook,
let slip (by), let pass, pass over, disregard, ignore: You can
be sure that Frobisher would never miss a free meal.
--n. 5 omission, oversight, slip, failure, mistake, error,
blunder, Colloq slip-up: A miss is as good as a mile.
missý n. Ms., girl, lass, lassie, maid, maiden, young lady, young
woman, schoolgirl, mademoiselle, nymphet, teenager, virgin,
spinster, old maid, Brit bachelor girl, Irish English colleen,
Literary nymph, Archaic demoiselle, damsel, Colloq old-fashioned
gal, US coed, Valley girl, bachelorette, Slang teeny-bopper,
groupie, Chiefly Brit bird, Old-fashioned US bobby-soxer: She's
a pretty young miss, isn't she?
misshapen adj. distorted, twisted, contorted, crooked, deformed,
crippled, malformed, grotesque, awry, warped, gnarled,