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mispulls

mispulls is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mispull.

mispulls is the plural 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 mispulls

What is mispulls the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Mispulls is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mispull.

Words near mispulls in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mispulls (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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