misattend

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To misunderstand something; to disregard or fail to pay attention. intransitive
    — I would have cabled you to withdraw it from the Century, but I didn't, for I was sure I could depend upon Gilder's declining it. If he hasn't done it, please take it away from him and charge him with being drunk and misattending to his duties.
  2. To fail to look after properly. transitive
    — Soon after this, she removed from my district; and in the year 1861, again, for the eighth time, was pregnant, when she now fell under the care of an unqualified medical man, who had been appointed by a board of guardians to mis'''attend the poor of a large district.

词形变化

misattends present,singular,third-person misattending participle,present misattended participle,past misattended past

词源

From mis- + attend.
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