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misput

misput verb: to put badly or wrongly.

Verb

misput (third-person singular simple present misputs, present participle misputting, simple past and past participle misput)

  1. (rare, transitive) To put badly or wrongly.
    • It all springs from misputting the problem.1911, The Journal of Philosophy, volume 8, page 586
  2. (US, dialectal, rare, transitive) To put out; to inconvenience or disturb.
    • But I don't like to misput nobody.1995, Janice Holt Giles, The Land Beyond the Mountains, page 134
    • "Would you mind if I came out and saw her for myself? I wouldn't be there to misput anyone, just to see her well," Dr. Quinton said.2020, Missy Priest, Child of the Wilderness

Forms of misput

third-person singular presentmisputs
present participlemisputting
past participlemisput
pastmisput

Origin of misput

From mis- + put.

Questions about misput

What does misput mean?
Misput means to put badly or wrongly.
What part of speech is misput?
Misput is a verb.
What is the past tense of misput?
The past tense of misput is misput.

Words near misput in the dictionary

  1. mispursued
  2. mispursues
  3. mispursuing
  4. mispursuit
  5. mispursuits
  6. misput
  7. misputs
  8. misputt
  9. misputted
  10. misputting
  11. misputts

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