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mispoint

mispoint verb: to point wrongly.

Verb

mispoint (third-person singular simple present mispoints, present participle mispointing, simple past and past participle mispointed)

  1. (transitive) To point wrongly
    • a mispointed antenna
  2. to punctuate wrongly.

Forms of mispoint

third-person singular presentmispoints
present participlemispointing
past participlemispointed
pastmispointed

Origin of mispoint

From mis- + point.

Questions about mispoint

What does mispoint mean?
Mispoint means to point wrongly.
What part of speech is mispoint?
Mispoint is a verb.
What is the past tense of mispoint?
The past tense of mispoint is mispointed.

Words near mispoint in the dictionary

  1. misplucks
  2. misplug
  3. misplugged
  4. misplugging
  5. misplugs
  6. mispoint
  7. mispointed
  8. mispointing
  9. mispoints
  10. mispolarization
  11. mispolarizations

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