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misopening

misopening is the present participle and gerund of misopen.

Meaning of misopen

Verb

misopen (third-person singular simple present misopens, present participle misopening, simple past and past participle misopened)

  1. To open what one should not open.
    • But this argument hadn't really been about trust, or homework, or misopened mail, and we both knew it.1978, Norma Johnston, If You Love Me, Let Me Go, page 18
  2. To do a bad job of opening.
    • Tensely, Michael removed pieces of cork from a misopened bottle.1986, Janet Hobhouse, November, page 59

Questions about misopening

What is misopening the present participle and gerund of?
Misopening is the present participle and gerund of misopen.

Words near misopening in the dictionary

  1. misopedic
  2. misopedist
  3. misopedists
  4. misopen
  5. misopened
  6. misopening
  7. misopens
  8. misoperate
  9. misoperated
  10. misoperates
  11. misoperating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misopening (page history and authors); misopen (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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