Word.ws English Dictionary

misrearing

misrearing is the present participle and gerund of misrear.

Meaning of misrear

Verb

misrear (third-person singular simple present misrears, present participle misrearing, simple past and past participle misreared)

  1. To rear improperly.
    • The educated Christian girl is loath to marry into a heathen family for fear of having to misrear or lose her children under the dictate of an ignorant and superstitious mother-in-law.1911, Edward Alsworth Ross, The Changing Chinese, page 198

Questions about misrearing

What is misrearing the present participle and gerund of?
Misrearing is the present participle and gerund of misrear.

Words near misrearing in the dictionary

  1. misreading
  2. misreadings
  3. misreads
  4. misrear
  5. misreared
  6. misrearing
  7. misrears
  8. misreason
  9. misreasoned
  10. misreasoning
  11. misreasons

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: misrearing (page history and authors); misrear (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “misrearing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/misrearing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.