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mismirroring

mismirroring is the present participle and gerund of mismirror.

Meaning of mismirror

Verb

mismirror (third-person singular simple present mismirrors, present participle mismirroring, simple past and past participle mismirrored)

  1. To provide a distorted reflection of
    • Each time, Helga's vulnerable and defensively haughty self approaches a potential mirror and is, or perceives itself to be, mismirrored.1997, Elizabeth Abel, Barbara Christian, Helene Moglen, Female Subjects in Black and White, page 258

Questions about mismirroring

What is mismirroring the present participle and gerund of?
Mismirroring is the present participle and gerund of mismirror.

Words near mismirroring in the dictionary

  1. mismigration
  2. mismigrations
  3. misminded
  4. mismirror
  5. mismirrored
  6. mismirroring
  7. mismirrors
  8. mismix
  9. mismixed
  10. mismixes
  11. mismixing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mismirroring (page history and authors); mismirror (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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