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misherding

misherding is the present participle and gerund of misherd.

Meaning of misherd

Verb

misherd (third-person singular simple present misherds, present participle misherding, simple past and past participle misherded)

  1. To herd into the wrong place.
    • They beseiged manorial overseers to adjudicate disputes concerning ownership of rustled livestock or damage to crops caused by strayed (or deliberately misherded) animals.1988, Dwight B. Heath, Contemporary Cultures and Societies of Latin America, page 204

Questions about misherding

What is misherding the present participle and gerund of?
Misherding is the present participle and gerund of misherd.

Words near misherding in the dictionary

  1. misheld
  2. mishellene
  3. mishellenes
  4. misherd
  5. misherded
  6. misherding
  7. misherds
  8. mishes
  9. mishew
  10. mishewed
  11. mishewing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misherding (page history and authors); misherd (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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