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misgroom

misgroom verb: to groom badly or wrongly.

Verb

misgroom (third-person singular simple present misgrooms, present participle misgrooming, simple past and past participle misgroomed)

  1. (transitive) To groom badly or wrongly.
    • Straggly-haired Mr Rhind-Tutt has been miscast, misdirected and misgroomed.2009 December 11, Quentin Letts, “Shocks and Men”, in Daily Mail
    • He was a great human tic, a wonderment of misgrooming.2009, Daniel A. Hoyt, Then We Saw the Flames: Stories, →ISBN, page 87

Forms of misgroom

third-person singular presentmisgrooms
present participlemisgrooming
past participlemisgroomed
pastmisgroomed

Origin of misgroom

From mis- + groom.

Questions about misgroom

What does misgroom mean?
Misgroom means to groom badly or wrongly.
What part of speech is misgroom?
Misgroom is a verb.
What is the past tense of misgroom?
The past tense of misgroom is misgroomed.

Words near misgroom in the dictionary

  1. misgrinds
  2. misgrip
  3. misgripped
  4. misgripping
  5. misgrips
  6. misgroom
  7. misgroomed
  8. misgrooming
  9. misgrooms
  10. misground
  11. misgrounded

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