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misgoverning

misgoverning is the present participle and gerund of misgovern.

Meaning of misgovern

Verb

misgovern (third-person singular simple present misgoverns, present participle misgoverning, simple past and past participle misgoverned)

  1. (transitive) To govern badly or wrongly.

Questions about misgoverning

What is misgoverning the present participle and gerund of?
Misgoverning is the present participle and gerund of misgovern.

Words near misgoverning in the dictionary

  1. misgovernance
  2. misgovernances
  3. misgovernaunce
  4. misgovernaunces
  5. misgoverned
  6. misgoverning
  7. misgovernment
  8. misgovernments
  9. misgovernor
  10. misgovernors
  11. misgoverns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misgoverning (page history and authors); misgovern (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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