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mispresent

mispresent verb: to present badly or wrongly.

Verb

mispresent (third-person singular simple present mispresents, present participle mispresenting, simple past and past participle mispresented)

  1. (transitive) To present badly or wrongly.
    • There is just as much danger in mispresenting a subject as there is in no attempt to present it.1915, New York (State). Board of Charities, Annual Report (volume 1, part 1, page 1067)

Forms of mispresent

third-person singular presentmispresents
present participlemispresenting
past participlemispresented
pastmispresented

Origin of mispresent

From mis- + present.

Questions about mispresent

What does mispresent mean?
Mispresent means to present badly or wrongly.
What part of speech is mispresent?
Mispresent is a verb.
What is the past tense of mispresent?
The past tense of mispresent is mispresented.

Words near mispresent in the dictionary

  1. misprescribed
  2. misprescribes
  3. misprescribing
  4. misprescription
  5. misprescriptions
  6. mispresent
  7. mispresented
  8. mispresenting
  9. mispresents
  10. mispreserve
  11. mispreserved

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