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misexplicating

misexplicating is the present participle and gerund of misexplicate.

Meaning of misexplicate

Verb

misexplicate (third-person singular simple present misexplicates, present participle misexplicating, simple past and past participle misexplicated)

  1. To explicate incorrectly.
    • They hav ^([sic]) only misexplicated all its parts after their own happy way.1893 January 14, “Freethought Converting Clergymen”, in The Truth Seeker: A Journal of Freethought and Reform, volume 20, number 2, page 20

Questions about misexplicating

What is misexplicating the present participle and gerund of?
Misexplicating is the present participle and gerund of misexplicate.

Words near misexplicating in the dictionary

  1. misexplanation
  2. misexplanations
  3. misexplicate
  4. misexplicated
  5. misexplicates
  6. misexplicating
  7. misexplication
  8. misexplications
  9. misexploit
  10. misexploited
  11. misexploiting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misexplicating (page history and authors); misexplicate (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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