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misreached

misreached is the simple past and past participle of misreach.

Meaning of misreach

Verb

misreach (third-person singular simple present misreaches, present participle misreaching, simple past and past participle misreached)

  1. To reach inaccurately.
    • When neurologically healthy individuals are first exposed to displacing prisms, they typically misreach in the direction of the visual displacement when pointing towards a visual target.2004, Glyn Humphreys, Jane Riddoch, Attention in Action: Advances from Cognitive Neuroscience, page 319

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Questions about misreached

What is misreached the simple past and past participle of?
Misreached is the simple past and past participle of misreach.

Words near misreached in the dictionary

  1. misrate
  2. misrated
  3. misrates
  4. misrating
  5. misreach
  6. misreached
  7. misreaches
  8. misreaching
  9. misreact
  10. misreacted
  11. misreacting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misreached (page history and authors); misreach (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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