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misgive

 : 
Verb (usu participle)
 : 
mis=give

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb misgive has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

misgivev. t. 
  •  To give or grant amiss.  Laud.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage; to impart fear to; to make irresolute; -- usually said of the mind or heart, and followed by the objective personal pronoun.  [1913 Webster]
    "So doth my heart misgive me in these conflicts
    What may befall him, to his harm and ours.
    "  [1913 Webster]
    "Such whose consciences misgave them, how ill they had deserved."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To suspect; to dread.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
misgivev. i. 
     To give out doubt and apprehension; to be fearful or irresolute.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

misgive, v.tr. (past -gave; past part. -given) (often foll. by about, that) (of a person's mind, heart, etc.) fill (a person) with suspicion or foreboding.

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