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misabsorbing

misabsorbing is the present participle and gerund of misabsorb.

Meaning of misabsorb

Verb

misabsorb (third-person singular simple present misabsorbs, present participle misabsorbing, simple past and past participle misabsorbed)

  1. To absorb wrongly.
    • Not surprisingly, some of the most influential of these interpreters—including Aiken, Van Wyck Brooks, Edmund Wilson, and Kenneth Burke—have operated outside the academy, for within that establishment Freud and his followers have frequently met the fate of other radical innovators: ignored or...1976, Albert E Stone, “Psychoanalysis and American Literary Culture”, in American Quarterly, volume 28, number 3, page 310

Questions about misabsorbing

What is misabsorbing the present participle and gerund of?
Misabsorbing is the present participle and gerund of misabsorb.

Words near misabsorbing in the dictionary

  1. misaborted
  2. misaborting
  3. misaborts
  4. misabsorb
  5. misabsorbed
  6. misabsorbing
  7. misabsorbs
  8. Misac
  9. misaccent
  10. misaccented
  11. misaccenting

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