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mispulling

mispulling is the present participle and gerund of mispull.

Meaning of mispull

Verb

mispull (third-person singular simple present mispulls, present participle mispulling, simple past and past participle mispulled)

  1. To pull badly, using incorrect technique.
    • Recruits had the appearance of “mispulled taffy."2005, Alan D. Gaff, Blood in the Argonne: The "Lost Battalion" of World War I, page 23
  2. To pull something that one should not pull.
    • A mispulled switch . . One of those minor accidents common to electric lighting systems .1920, Bertrand W. Sinclair, Poor Man's Rock, page 179

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Questions about mispulling

What is mispulling the present participle and gerund of?
Mispulling is the present participle and gerund of mispull.

Words near mispulling in the dictionary

  1. mispublished
  2. mispublishes
  3. mispublishing
  4. mispull
  5. mispulled
  6. mispulling
  7. mispulls
  8. mispump
  9. mispumped
  10. mispumping
  11. mispumps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mispulling (page history and authors); mispull (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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