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misfarming

misfarming is the present participle and gerund of misfarm.

Meaning of misfarm

Verb

misfarm (third-person singular simple present misfarms, present participle misfarming, simple past and past participle misfarmed)

  1. To do a poor job of farming.
    • The poet seems to inwardly adopt as his ancestors all the generations of farmers — good and bad, but mostly bad — who for two hundred years have farmed and misfarmed this region along the Kentucky River.2004, Ronald Jager, The Fate of Family Farming: Variations on an American Idea, page 74

Questions about misfarming

What is misfarming the present participle and gerund of?
Misfarming is the present participle and gerund of misfarm.

Words near misfarming in the dictionary

  1. misfared
  2. misfares
  3. misfaring
  4. misfarm
  5. misfarmed
  6. misfarming
  7. misfarms
  8. misfashion
  9. misfashioned
  10. misfashioning
  11. misfashions

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