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misextends

misextends is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misextend.

Meaning of misextend

Verb

misextend (third-person singular simple present misextends, present participle misextending, simple past and past participle misextended)

  1. To extend wrongly.
    • We have seen what an aptness there is to misapply and misextend St Paul's principles of unity, and to seek support in them for that which in fact they rather exclude.1846, Julius Charles Hare, The Mission of the Comforter, and Other Sermons, page 1018

Questions about misextends

What is misextends the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Misextends is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misextend.

Words near misextends in the dictionary

  1. misexpressions
  2. misexpressive
  3. misextend
  4. misextended
  5. misextending
  6. misextends
  7. misextrapolate
  8. misextrapolated
  9. misextrapolates
  10. misextrapolating
  11. misextrapolation

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