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misdigesting

misdigesting is the present participle and gerund of misdigest.

Meaning of misdigest

Verb

misdigest (third-person singular simple present misdigests, present participle misdigesting, simple past and past participle misdigested)

  1. To improperly break down (food) in the alimentary canal.
    • I misdigest my food, such as I get.1996, Paul West, Sporting with Amaryllis, page 78
  2. To incorrectly analyze or summarize.
    • And within two years of Ashford, a commentator had found three Washington cases, “misdigested and lost on the books," which neither the majority nor the separate opinions had considered, recognizing the doctrine of equitable conversion as the law of Washington.1977, University of Puget Sound law review - Volume 1, page 122

Questions about misdigesting

What is misdigesting the present participle and gerund of?
Misdigesting is the present participle and gerund of misdigest.

Words near misdigesting in the dictionary

  1. misdifferentiation
  2. misdifferentiations
  3. misdig
  4. misdigest
  5. misdigested
  6. misdigesting
  7. misdigests
  8. misdigging
  9. misdight
  10. misdigs
  11. misdirect

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misdigesting (page history and authors); misdigest (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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