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misasking

misasking is the present participle and gerund of misask.

Meaning of misask

Verb

misask (third-person singular simple present misasks, present participle misasking, simple past and past participle misasked)

  1. (rare, transitive) to ask amiss; ask badly, wrongfully, or incorrectly
    • Mr. Morris. Did that include the five seamen now in Moscow?
      I may have misasked the question then.1956, Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States

Questions about misasking

What is misasking the present participle and gerund of?
Misasking is the present participle and gerund of misask.

Words near misasking in the dictionary

  1. misascribing
  2. misascription
  3. misascriptions
  4. misask
  5. misasked
  6. misasking
  7. misasks
  8. misassemble
  9. misassembled
  10. misassembles
  11. misassemblies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misasking (page history and authors); misask (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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