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gotten wrong

gotten wrong is the past participle 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 gotten wrong

What is gotten wrong the past participle of?
Gotten wrong is the past participle of get wrong.

Words near gotten wrong in the dictionary

  1. gotten with child
  2. gotten with it
  3. gotten with the program
  4. gotten with the times
  5. gotten work done
  6. gotten wrong
  7. gotter
  8. Gottesman
  9. Gottesman-Knill theorem
  10. Gottesmans
  11. gottest

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