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miseducate

miseducate verb: to educate wrongly.

Verb

miseducate (third-person singular simple present miseducates, present participle miseducating, simple past and past participle miseducated)

  1. To educate wrongly.

Forms of miseducate

third-person singular presentmiseducates
present participlemiseducating
past participlemiseducated
pastmiseducated

Origin of miseducate

From mis- + educate.

Words formed from miseducate

Questions about miseducate

What does miseducate mean?
Miseducate means to educate wrongly.
What part of speech is miseducate?
Miseducate is a verb.
What is the past tense of miseducate?
The past tense of miseducate is miseducated.

Words near miseducate in the dictionary

  1. misedited
  2. misediting
  3. misedition
  4. miseditions
  5. misedits
  6. miseducate
  7. miseducated
  8. miseducates
  9. miseducating
  10. miseducation
  11. miseducations

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