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getting wrong

getting wrong is the present participle and gerund of get wrong.

Meaning of get wrong

Verb

get wrong (third-person singular simple present gets wrong, present participle getting wrong, simple past got wrong, past participle (UK) got wrong or (US) gotten wrong)

  1. (transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, wrong.
    • You've got it all wrong: I'm innocent of this crime!
  2. (Norfolk, Northumbria, often) To be told off or reprimanded; to get into trouble.
    • […] she couldn't tell her mother and father, because she would have got wrong off her mother and father […]1976, John Henry Taylor, The Half-Way Generation: A Study of Asian Youths in Newcastle upon Tyne, NFER Publishing Company, page 138

Questions about getting wrong

What is getting wrong the present participle and gerund of?
Getting wrong is the present participle and gerund of get wrong.

Words near getting wrong in the dictionary

  1. getting with child
  2. getting with it
  3. getting with the program
  4. getting with the times
  5. getting work done
  6. getting wrong
  7. getting-to-know-you
  8. Gettinger
  9. Gettingers
  10. gettings
  11. Gettle

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