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misauthorizing

misauthorizing is the present participle and gerund of misauthorize.

Meaning of misauthorize

Verb

misauthorize (third-person singular simple present misauthorizes, present participle misauthorizing, simple past and past participle misauthorized)

  1. (rare, transitive) To authorize erroneously.
    • This would not only allow paths sharing nodes with this tag's path to be wrongfully unauthorized, but would eventually misauthorize the repeatedly scanning tag as well.2009, Yan Zhang, Laurence T. Yang, Jiming Chen, RFID and Sensor Networks, page 136

Questions about misauthorizing

What is misauthorizing the present participle and gerund of?
Misauthorizing is the present participle and gerund of misauthorize.

Words near misauthorizing in the dictionary

  1. misaudits
  2. misauthorization
  3. misauthorize
  4. misauthorized
  5. misauthorizes
  6. misauthorizing
  7. misaventure
  8. misaventures
  9. misavise
  10. misavised
  11. misavising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misauthorizing (page history and authors); misauthorize (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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