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mispursuing

mispursuing is the present participle and gerund 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 mispursuing

What is mispursuing the present participle and gerund of?
Mispursuing is the present participle and gerund of mispursue.

Words near mispursuing in the dictionary

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

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