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misracing

misracing is the present participle and gerund of misrace.

Meaning of misrace

Verb

misrace (third-person singular simple present misraces, present participle misracing, simple past and past participle misraced)

  1. (rare) To incorrectly identify someone's race.
    • More recently, Fram had an acrimonious semantic debate with a high-profile transgender editor over whether referring to them as "xe" constituted misgendering. It culminated in an ugly claim by Fram that he would not be misracing a black person by calling them the n-word, only being racist.2019 June 27, Joseph Bernstein, “The Culture War Has Finally Come For Wikipedia”, in BuzzFeed News, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2023

Questions about misracing

What is misracing the present participle and gerund of?
Misracing is the present participle and gerund of misrace.

Words near misracing in the dictionary

  1. MISRA
  2. misrable
  3. misrace
  4. misraced
  5. misraces
  6. misracing
  7. misraise
  8. misraised
  9. misraises
  10. misraising
  11. misran

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misracing (page history and authors); misrace (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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