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mis-apostrophizing

mis-apostrophizing is the present participle and gerund of mis-apostrophize.

Meaning of mis-apostrophize

Verb

mis-apostrophize (third-person singular simple present mis-apostrophizes, present participle mis-apostrophizing, simple past and past participle mis-apostrophized)

  1. (rare, transitive) To add an apostrophe inappropriately
    • Will never tried to pick up women. He thought it unnatural and a little awkward, but he was feeling extraordinarily confident with Amelior in his system, so he took a plunge. "Don't you hate it when they mis-apostrophize things?" he asked, looking at her but nodding his head toward the menu. She...2013, JSB Morse, Now and at the Hour of Our Death, page 76

Questions about mis-apostrophizing

What is mis-apostrophizing the present participle and gerund of?
Mis-apostrophizing is the present participle and gerund of mis-apostrophize.

Words near mis-apostrophizing in the dictionary

  1. mis lit
  2. mis-
  3. mis-apostrophize
  4. mis-apostrophized
  5. mis-apostrophizes
  6. mis-apostrophizing
  7. mis-association
  8. mis-associations
  9. MIS-C
  10. mis-dealer
  11. mis-dealers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mis-apostrophizing (page history and authors); mis-apostrophize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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