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misgetting

misgetting is the present participle and gerund of misget.

Meaning of misget

Verb

misget (third-person singular simple present misgets, present participle misgetting, simple past misgot, past participle misgotten)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To get wrongly or unlawfully; to procure by unlawful means.
    • the fruitlesse end
      Of thy vaine boast , and spoile of love misgot1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about misgetting

What is misgetting the present participle and gerund of?
Misgetting is the present participle and gerund of misget.

Words near misgetting in the dictionary

  1. misgestured
  2. misgestures
  3. misgesturing
  4. misget
  5. misgets
  6. misgetting
  7. misgive
  8. misgiven
  9. misgives
  10. misgiving
  11. misgivingly

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