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misascribing

misascribing is the present participle and gerund of misascribe.

Meaning of misascribe

Verb

misascribe (third-person singular simple present misascribes, present participle misascribing, simple past and past participle misascribed)

  1. (transitive) To ascribe wrongly.
    • Some people misascribe the works of Shakespeare to other writers.
    Synonyms:
    misattribute

Questions about misascribing

What is misascribing the present participle and gerund of?
Misascribing is the present participle and gerund of misascribe.

Words near misascribing in the dictionary

  1. Misas
  2. misascertainment
  3. misascribe
  4. misascribed
  5. misascribes
  6. misascribing
  7. misascription
  8. misascriptions
  9. misask
  10. misasked
  11. misasking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misascribing (page history and authors); misascribe (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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