Word.ws English Dictionary

mismanipulating

mismanipulating is the present participle and gerund of mismanipulate.

Meaning of mismanipulate

Verb

mismanipulate (third-person singular simple present mismanipulates, present participle mismanipulating, simple past and past participle mismanipulated)

  1. To manipulate badly; to operate in a way that does not achieve the intended result.
    • By a system of shafts, levers and links the overwinding and overspeeding device which is geared to the depth indicator is attached to the hoist-control lever in such a way that the machine would be stopped automatically should the hoistman mismanipulate his levers at the beginning or end of a hoist.1926, Coal Age - Volume 29, page 461

Questions about mismanipulating

What is mismanipulating the present participle and gerund of?
Mismanipulating is the present participle and gerund of mismanipulate.

Words near mismanipulating in the dictionary

  1. mismangles
  2. mismangling
  3. mismanipulate
  4. mismanipulated
  5. mismanipulates
  6. mismanipulating
  7. mismanned
  8. mismannered
  9. mismanners
  10. mismanoeuver
  11. mismanoeuvered

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mismanipulating (page history and authors); mismanipulate (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mismanipulating.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mismanipulating. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.