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misalters

misalters is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 misalters

What is misalters the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Misalters is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misalter.

Words near misalters in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misalters (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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