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misaddressed

misaddressed is the simple past and past participle of misaddress.

Meaning of misaddress

Verb

misaddress (third-person singular simple present misaddresses, present participle misaddressing, simple past and past participle misaddressed)

  1. (transitive) To address (a letter, etc.) incorrectly.
    • She had written it to him before she died, but had misaddressed it — and hence the postal delay.1970, Queen's Quarterly, volume 77, page 35

Questions about misaddressed

What is misaddressed the simple past and past participle of?
Misaddressed is the simple past and past participle of misaddress.

Words near misaddressed in the dictionary

  1. misadded
  2. misadding
  3. misaddition
  4. misadditions
  5. misaddress
  6. misaddressed
  7. misaddresses
  8. misaddressing
  9. misadds
  10. misadjust
  11. misadjusted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misaddressed (page history and authors); misaddress (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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