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mispreserves

mispreserves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mispreserve.

Meaning of mispreserve

Verb

mispreserve (third-person singular simple present mispreserves, present participle mispreserving, simple past and past participle mispreserved)

  1. To preserve badly or to preserve something that does not merit preservation.
    • There is no positive evidence of the fact, but that proposition was raised is the exact reason why it is provided in the election law that you can't open a ballot box and can't take any cognizance of ballots that have been so mispreserved.1917, United States Congressional Serial Set - Volume 7300, page 54

Questions about mispreserves

What is mispreserves the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Mispreserves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mispreserve.

Words near mispreserves in the dictionary

  1. mispresented
  2. mispresenting
  3. mispresents
  4. mispreserve
  5. mispreserved
  6. mispreserves
  7. mispreserving
  8. mispress
  9. mispressed
  10. mispresses
  11. mispressing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mispreserves (page history and authors); mispreserve (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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