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misconsuming

misconsuming is the present participle and gerund of misconsume.

Meaning of misconsume

Verb

misconsume (third-person singular simple present misconsumes, present participle misconsuming, simple past and past participle misconsumed)

  1. To consume in an incorrect manner; to consume the wrong amount, the wrong things, or at the wrong place or time.
    • Lovelock, for example, suggests the term “jaycustomers" to label customers who “misconsume” in a manner similar to jaywalkers who cross streets in unauthorized places.1996, Christopher H. Lovelock, Services marketing, page 115

Questions about misconsuming

What is misconsuming the present participle and gerund of?
Misconsuming is the present participle and gerund of misconsume.

Words near misconsuming in the dictionary

  1. misconstruing
  2. misconstruings
  3. misconsume
  4. misconsumed
  5. misconsumes
  6. misconsuming
  7. miscontact
  8. miscontacted
  9. miscontacting
  10. miscontacts
  11. miscontent

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misconsuming (page history and authors); misconsume (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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