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misgroup

misgroup verb: to group wrongly.

Verb

misgroup (third-person singular simple present misgroups, present participle misgrouping, simple past and past participle misgrouped)

  1. (transitive) To group wrongly.
    • Consequently, the burden of grouping the syllables into words falls entirely on the reader, and it is very common for beginners to misgroup the syllables and create horrendous translations […]1991, Melvyn C. Goldstein, Gelek Rimpoche, Lobsang Phuntshog, Essentials of Modern Literary Tibetan
    • Any fixed width cluster has the potential to misgroup peptides from multiple genes into a single group.2008, Samuel Harris Payne, Advances in Computational Mass Spectrometry

Forms of misgroup

third-person singular presentmisgroups
present participlemisgrouping
past participlemisgrouped
pastmisgrouped

Origin of misgroup

From mis- + group.

Questions about misgroup

What does misgroup mean?
Misgroup means to group wrongly.
What part of speech is misgroup?
Misgroup is a verb.
What is the past tense of misgroup?
The past tense of misgroup is misgrouped.

Words near misgroup in the dictionary

  1. misgrooms
  2. misground
  3. misgrounded
  4. misgrounding
  5. misgrounds
  6. misgroup
  7. misgrouped
  8. misgrouping
  9. misgroups
  10. misgrow
  11. misgrowing

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