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misnests

misnests is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misnest.

Meaning of misnest

Verb

misnest (third-person singular simple present misnests, present participle misnesting, simple past and past participle misnested)

  1. (ambitransitive) To err when nesting one item or set of items within another.
    • dUTIL can assist in the location of certain types of logic errors, primarily those involving misnesting of logical constructs or missing symbols.1985 November 12, Glenn A. Hart, “A Smorgasbord Of Fox & Geller Enhancements For dBASE III”, in PC Mag, volume 4, number 23, page 239

Questions about misnests

What is misnests the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Misnests is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misnest.

Words near misnests in the dictionary

  1. Misner
  2. Misners
  3. misnest
  4. misnested
  5. misnesting
  6. misnests
  7. Misnia
  8. misnomed
  9. misnomer
  10. misnomered
  11. misnomering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misnests (page history and authors); misnest (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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