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misprescribed

misprescribed is the simple past and past participle of misprescribe.

Meaning of misprescribe

Verb

misprescribe (third-person singular simple present misprescribes, present participle misprescribing, simple past and past participle misprescribed)

  1. To prescribe (a medicine) erroneously.
    • Even in a case where the doctor and the pharmacist somehow misprescribed and misdispensed, it seems obvious that the consumer would see that the product was for weight loss and would not accept it in place of an allergy relief medication.1981, The United States Patents Quarterly - Volume 209, page 74

Questions about misprescribed

What is misprescribed the simple past and past participle of?
Misprescribed is the simple past and past participle of misprescribe.

Words near misprescribed in the dictionary

  1. misprepare
  2. misprepared
  3. misprepares
  4. mispreparing
  5. misprescribe
  6. misprescribed
  7. misprescribes
  8. misprescribing
  9. misprescription
  10. misprescriptions
  11. mispresent

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