Misgive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To arouse suspicion or apprehension in (one's mind or heart, for example).
  • verb-intransitive. To be suspicious, apprehensive, or doubtful.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to give fear or doubt to
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To give or grant amiss.
  • v. 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.
  • v. To suspect; to dread.
  • verb-intransitive. To give out doubt and apprehension; to be fearful or irresolute.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To give or grant amiss.
  • To give doubt or apprehension to; make apprehensive; cause to hesitate: used of the mind, heart, conscience, etc., with a pronoun for object, or with the object unexpressed.
  • To give way to doubt; be apprehensive; hesitate.
  • To give way; break down.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. suggest fear or doubt
    • Verb Form
    misgave    misgiven    misgives    misgiving   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    vex    worry   
    Variant
    misgave    misgiven   
    Form
    misgivings   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    suspect    dread    fear   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Viv    forgive    give    liv    live    outlive    relive    sieve   
     
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