misgrab

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A failed attempt to grab something.
    — He hauls in the twenty yards of it in frantic haste, making many a misgrab and getting more excited, I'll warrant, than he ever was with any but his first bear.
  2. A mistake. figuratively
    — It is easy for the American visitor to make a “misgrab” here because, blinded by the surface similarities, he fails to take the hidden differences into consideration.
动词 v.
  1. To fail in an attempt to grab something
    — […] misgrabbing or catching an apparatus or opponent

词形变化

misgrabs plural misgrabs present,singular,third-person misgrabbing participle,present misgrabbed participle,past misgrabbed past

词源

词源 1
From mis- + grab.
词源 2
From mis- + grab.
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