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misexpending

misexpending is the present participle and gerund of misexpend.

Meaning of misexpend

Verb

misexpend (third-person singular simple present misexpends, present participle misexpending, simple past and past participle misexpended)

  1. (transitive) To expend badly or wrongly.
    • I have abused thy favours in the misexpending of my precious time, and have taken no delight in thy Sabbaths.1664, Francis Quarles, Boanerges and Barnabas, 6th edition, page 53

Questions about misexpending

What is misexpending the present participle and gerund of?
Misexpending is the present participle and gerund of misexpend.

Words near misexpending in the dictionary

  1. misexpands
  2. misexpectation
  3. misexpectations
  4. misexpend
  5. misexpended
  6. misexpending
  7. misexpenditure
  8. misexpenditures
  9. misexpends
  10. misexplain
  11. misexplained

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misexpending (page history and authors); misexpend (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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