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mispursues

mispursues is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mispursue.

Meaning of mispursue

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

Questions about mispursues

What is mispursues the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Mispursues is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mispursue.

Words near mispursues in the dictionary

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

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