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misaltering

misaltering is the present participle and gerund of misalter.

Meaning of misalter

Verb

misalter (third-person singular simple present misalters, present participle misaltering, simple past and past participle misaltered)

  1. (transitive) To make a change that leaves (something) worse than before.
    • These are all, besides those which I fore-specified, which have so "misaltered" the liturgy, that it can no more be known to be itself than the strangely-disguised dames which were mentioned in doctor Hall's reproof.1863, Works - Volume 9 -, page 403

Questions about misaltering

What is misaltering the present participle and gerund of?
Misaltering is the present participle and gerund of misalter.

Words near misaltering in the dictionary

  1. misallying
  2. misalphabetized
  3. misals
  4. misalter
  5. misaltered
  6. misaltering
  7. misalters
  8. misaminoacylate
  9. misaminoacylated
  10. misaminoacylates
  11. misaminoacylating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misaltering (page history and authors); misalter (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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