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misprobing

misprobing is the present participle and gerund of misprobe.

Meaning of misprobe

Verb

misprobe (third-person singular simple present misprobes, present participle misprobing, simple past and past participle misprobed)

  1. To probe incorrectly.
    • The pocket pocket was probably misprobed originally, because of the lack of standardization of probing.1981, Nathaniel H. Rowe, Proceedings of Symposium on Trends in the Prevention and Treatment of Periodontal Disease, page 35

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Questions about misprobing

What is misprobing the present participle and gerund of?
Misprobing is the present participle and gerund of misprobe.

Words near misprobing in the dictionary

  1. misprizes
  2. misprizing
  3. misprobe
  4. misprobed
  5. misprobes
  6. misprobing
  7. misproceeding
  8. misproceedings
  9. misprocess
  10. misprocessed
  11. misprocesses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misprobing (page history and authors); misprobe (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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