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misdropping

misdropping is the present participle and gerund of misdrop.

Meaning of misdrop

Verb

misdrop (third-person singular simple present misdrops, present participle misdropping, simple past and past participle misdropped)

  1. To drop (especially, to airdrop) incorrectly or in the wrong place.
    • Nine C-47s from the 53rd Transport Command Squadron had managed to misdrop the entire Headquarters Company of the Third Battalion along with 55 equipment bundles containing machine guns, mortars, ammunition, rations, maps, demolitions equipment, and medical supplies. Sometime after 2:38 AM on June...2007, George Henry Bennett, Destination Normandy: Three American Regiments on D-Day, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 104

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Questions about misdropping

What is misdropping the present participle and gerund of?
Misdropping is the present participle and gerund of misdrop.

Words near misdropping in the dictionary

  1. misdriven
  2. misdrives
  3. misdriving
  4. misdrop
  5. misdropped
  6. misdropping
  7. misdrops
  8. misdrove
  9. misdub
  10. misdubbed
  11. misdubbing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misdropping (page history and authors); misdrop (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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