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mispursue

mispursue verb: to pursue in the wrong way.

Verb

mispursue (third-person singular simple present mispursues, present participle mispursuing, simple past and past participle mispursued)

  1. To pursue in the wrong way.
    • A study, complete with statistics and history, of the American legal profession as it has been pursued and mispursued in the past couple of hundred years.1954, Saturday Review - Volume 37, page 36
    • Such struggle is mispursued when one tries to establish one's viewpoint as uniquely true and to exclude the other's as simply false.1996, John Richardson, Nietzsche's System, page 189

Forms of mispursue

third-person singular presentmispursues
present participlemispursuing
past participlemispursued
pastmispursued

Origin of mispursue

From mis- + pursue.

Questions about mispursue

What does mispursue mean?
Mispursue means to pursue in the wrong way.
What part of speech is mispursue?
Mispursue is a verb.
What is the past tense of mispursue?
The past tense of mispursue is mispursued.

Words near mispursue in the dictionary

  1. mispunishing
  2. mispurchase
  3. mispurchases
  4. mispurpose
  5. mispurposes
  6. mispursue
  7. mispursued
  8. mispursues
  9. mispursuing
  10. mispursuit
  11. mispursuits

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