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misling

misling is the present participle and gerund of misle.

Meaning of misle

Verb (1)

misle (third-person singular simple present misles, present participle misling, simple past and past participle misled)

  1. To rain in fine drops; to mizzle.
    • I know a woman of fashion, who is perpetually employed in remarks upon the weather, who observes from morning to noon, that it is likely to rain, and from noon to night, that it spits, that it misles, that it is set in for a wet evening; and, being incapable of any other discourse, is as insipid a...1792, The Prose Epitome, page 323

Verb (2)

misle (third-person singular simple present misles, present participle misling, simple past and past participle misled)

  1. (humorous, nonstandard, rare) To mislead.
    • I think Caspari has been misling you somewhat on the subject of Scenedesmus: the cells divide essentially as in Chlorella, but stay in 4 or 8-celled colonies until the next division.1955 June, Ralph A. Lewin, “letter to Joshua Lederberg”, in Profiles in Science, U.S. National Library of Medicine

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Questions about misling

What is misling the present participle and gerund of?
Misling is the present participle and gerund of misle.

Words near misling in the dictionary

  1. mislin
  2. misline
  3. mislineation
  4. mislined
  5. mislines
  6. misling
  7. mislining
  8. mislink
  9. mislinkage
  10. mislinked
  11. mislinking

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