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mispatch

mispatch verb: to patch wrongly.

Verb

mispatch (third-person singular simple present mispatches, present participle mispatching, simple past and past participle mispatched)

  1. (transitive) To patch wrongly.
    • Make sure you have a good boot disk in case anything goes wrong, as your computer probably won't boot with a mispatched COMMAND.COM.1990, PC Mag, volume 9, number 7
    • When someone mispatches a cable, the subsequent repair job or hasty "What's wrong with this?" debugging often causes additional failures in short order.2000, Network World, volume 17, number 50, page 82

Forms of mispatch

third-person singular presentmispatches
present participlemispatching
past participlemispatched
pastmispatched

Origin of mispatch

From mis- + patch.

Questions about mispatch

What does mispatch mean?
Mispatch means to patch wrongly.
What part of speech is mispatch?
Mispatch is a verb.
What is the past tense of mispatch?
The past tense of mispatch is mispatched.

Words near mispatch in the dictionary

  1. mispassion
  2. mispaste
  3. mispasted
  4. mispastes
  5. mispasting
  6. mispatch
  7. mispatched
  8. mispatches
  9. mispatching
  10. mispattern
  11. mispatterned

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