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misinstalled

misinstalled is the simple past and past participle of misinstall.

Meaning of misinstall

Verb

misinstall (third-person singular simple present misinstalls, present participle misinstalling, simple past and past participle misinstalled)

  1. To install improperly or by mistake.
    • If possible, the evaluator should insert the same type of defects (or simulate the defects) that occur in the components of the circuits involved. If a particular decoder chip on a certain board is often misinstalled, for example, one should misinstall the component.1984, Allan C. Stover, ATE: Automatic Test Equipment, page 187

Questions about misinstalled

What is misinstalled the simple past and past participle of?
Misinstalled is the simple past and past participle of misinstall.

Words near misinstalled in the dictionary

  1. misinspires
  2. misinspiring
  3. misinstall
  4. misinstallation
  5. misinstallations
  6. misinstalled
  7. misinstalling
  8. misinstalls
  9. misinstruct
  10. misinstructed
  11. misinstructing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misinstalled (page history and authors); misinstall (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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