misstroke

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An instance of misstroking; a misstrike.
    — To sit in your light shell of a boat, in mid-current, with rocks on either side, where the bed of the river declines at an angle of thirty degrees, knowing that a miscalculation of the eye, a misstroke of the oar or the least shaking of the muscles will send your boat rolling over and over, and you under it, has a very strong tendency to make a man look sharp and keep his wits about him.
动词 v.
  1. To stroke badly. (any sense)
    — One day the answer came, as I was coaching a pupil who kept up a running conversation as he persistently misstroked the ball.

词形变化

misstrokes present,singular,third-person misstroking participle,present misstroked participle,past misstroked past misstrokes plural

词源

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