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misengendering

misengendering is the present participle and gerund of misengender.

Meaning of misengender

Verb

misengender (third-person singular simple present misengenders, present participle misengendering, simple past and past participle misengendered)

  1. To engender wrongly or badly; to misbeget.
    • I might relate of numbers, and their names, And fabled origin unfold exact; Misformed, and misengendered wonders strange, Begot of fancy, and endowed with names From fabulous antiquity derived; Telling their deeds recited oft in vain.1856, Edward Howard, The Genesis; a Poem, page 130

Questions about misengendering

What is misengendering the present participle and gerund of?
Misengendering is the present participle and gerund of misengender.

Words near misengendering in the dictionary

  1. misenforced
  2. misenforces
  3. misenforcing
  4. misengender
  5. misengendered
  6. misengendering
  7. misengenders
  8. misengineer
  9. misengineered
  10. misengineering
  11. misengineers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misengendering (page history and authors); misengender (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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