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miscontinuing

miscontinuing is the present participle and gerund of miscontinue.

Meaning of miscontinue

Verb

miscontinue (third-person singular simple present miscontinues, present participle miscontinuing, simple past and past participle miscontinued)

  1. To continue wrongly.
    • As to the seventh particular, viz. Where the process on an appeal, indictment, or information, shall be said to be discontinued, or miscontinued, or put without day.1795, William Hawkins, Thomas Leach, A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown, page 169

Questions about miscontinuing

What is miscontinuing the present participle and gerund of?
Miscontinuing is the present participle and gerund of miscontinue.

Words near miscontinuing in the dictionary

  1. miscontinuance
  2. miscontinuances
  3. miscontinue
  4. miscontinued
  5. miscontinues
  6. miscontinuing
  7. miscontrol
  8. miscontrolled
  9. miscontrolling
  10. miscontrols
  11. misconverge

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miscontinuing (page history and authors); miscontinue (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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