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misdecorating

misdecorating is the present participle and gerund of misdecorate.

Meaning of misdecorate

Verb

misdecorate (third-person singular simple present misdecorates, present participle misdecorating, simple past and past participle misdecorated)

  1. To decorate incorrectly.
    • “By George that's not a bad idea of yours, Gurney,” said Mr. Rivers, misdecorating the patentee of the invention with a charming naiveté.1884 March, “A Shepherd at Court”, in The Overland Monthly, volume 3, number 3, page 271

Questions about misdecorating

What is misdecorating the present participle and gerund of?
Misdecorating is the present participle and gerund of misdecorate.

Words near misdecorating in the dictionary

  1. misdecodes
  2. misdecoding
  3. misdecorate
  4. misdecorated
  5. misdecorates
  6. misdecorating
  7. misdeed
  8. misdeeder
  9. misdeeds
  10. misdeedy
  11. misdeem

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misdecorating (page history and authors); misdecorate (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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