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mismaintains

mismaintains is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mismaintain.

Meaning of mismaintain

Verb

mismaintain (third-person singular simple present mismaintains, present participle mismaintaining, simple past and past participle mismaintained)

  1. To maintain improperly; to provide inadequate maintenance.
    • A bus can be mismaintained causing it to spill gallons of expensive fuel rounding the first corner of the day.1990, Mass Transit - Volume 17, page 50

Questions about mismaintains

What is mismaintains the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Mismaintains is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mismaintain.

Words near mismaintains in the dictionary

  1. mismailing
  2. mismails
  3. mismaintain
  4. mismaintained
  5. mismaintaining
  6. mismaintains
  7. mismake
  8. mismakes
  9. mismaking
  10. mismanage
  11. mismanageable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mismaintains (page history and authors); mismaintain (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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