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misintroducing

misintroducing is the present participle and gerund of misintroduce.

Meaning of misintroduce

Verb

misintroduce (third-person singular simple present misintroduces, present participle misintroducing, simple past and past participle misintroduced)

  1. To name or describe (someone or something) incorrectly when making an introduction; to present (someone or something) by the wrong name or description.
    • The first thing I did was to misintroduce an engineer to somebody else. I never did get all the engineers straightened out — they weren't in L & S.1987, Lincoln Constance, Versatile Berkeley Botanist, page 211
  2. To insert (something) incorrectly to a system or environment; to insert (something) that does not belong there or to insert it in the wrong way.
    • Bedrnik ( 1970a ) obtained greater development of E . tenella merozoites after using inocula containing “misintroduced" cells from the cecum of chickens.1973, Datus M. Hammond, Peter L. Long, The Coccidia: Eimeria, Isospora, Toxoplasma, and Related Genera, page 222

Questions about misintroducing

What is misintroducing the present participle and gerund of?
Misintroducing is the present participle and gerund of misintroduce.

Words near misintroducing in the dictionary

  1. misinterpreting
  2. misinterprets
  3. misintroduce
  4. misintroduced
  5. misintroduces
  6. misintroducing
  7. misinvest
  8. misinvested
  9. misinvesting
  10. misinvestment
  11. misinvestments

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