Word.ws English Dictionary

misrestoring

misrestoring is the present participle and gerund of misrestore.

Meaning of misrestore

Verb

misrestore (third-person singular simple present misrestores, present participle misrestoring, simple past and past participle misrestored)

  1. To restore improperly; to err in the restoration of.
    • Using vase paintings, it has been possible to correct the arm positions that the Naples Museum had misrestored.2003, Louis Crompton, Homosexuality and Civilization, page 29

Questions about misrestoring

What is misrestoring the present participle and gerund of?
Misrestoring is the present participle and gerund of misrestore.

Words near misrestoring in the dictionary

  1. misrestoration
  2. misrestorations
  3. misrestore
  4. misrestored
  5. misrestores
  6. misrestoring
  7. misresult
  8. misresults
  9. misreturn
  10. misreturned
  11. misreturning

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: misrestoring (page history and authors); misrestore (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: “misrestoring.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/misrestoring. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.