Misgive

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  • transitive verb. To arouse suspicion or apprehension in.
    • 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To give or grant amiss.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • transitive verb. To suspect; to dread.
  • intransitive verb. To give out doubt and apprehension; to be fearful or irresolute.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to give fear or doubt to
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. suggest fear or doubt
    • Word Usage
    "Dreadfully did my heart then misgive me: I was ready to faint."
    Form
    misgivings  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    vex  worry  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Viv  forgive  give  liv  live  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dread  fear  suspect  
    variant
    misgave  misgiven  
    verb-form
    misgave  misgiven  misgives  misgiving  
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