misstop

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ stop

Verb

misstop (third-person singular simple present misstops, present participle misstopping, simple past and past participle misstopped)

  1. (rare) To stop badly or wrongly.
    • 1894, Edna Lyall, To Right the Wrong, page 260:
      […] the slipping or breaking of a string or the misstopping of a fret.
    • 2014, Michael Saenger, Interlinguicity, Internationality, and Shakespeare:
      Even within an apparently English-only range, sounds are difficult enough to govern, as Quince's misstopped Prologue makes clear.

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