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miscorrecting

miscorrecting is the present participle and gerund of miscorrect.

Meaning of miscorrect

Verb

miscorrect (third-person singular simple present miscorrects, present participle miscorrecting, simple past and past participle miscorrected)

  1. To correct erroneously; to make a mistake in attempting to correct another mistake.
    • A proofreader that does not know foreign languages is likely to miscorrect Latin words.

Questions about miscorrecting

What is miscorrecting the present participle and gerund of?
Miscorrecting is the present participle and gerund of miscorrect.

Words near miscorrecting in the dictionary

  1. miscopy
  2. miscopying
  3. miscopyings
  4. miscorrect
  5. miscorrected
  6. miscorrecting
  7. miscorrection
  8. miscorrections
  9. miscorrects
  10. miscorrelate
  11. miscorrelated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miscorrecting (page history and authors); miscorrect (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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