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misschooling

misschooling is the present participle and gerund of misschool.

Meaning of misschool

Verb

misschool (third-person singular simple present misschools, present participle misschooling, simple past and past participle misschooled)

  1. To school improperly; to teach or train in incorrect or problematic material or by the wrong methods.
    • Born the most sensitive of children into an unhappy family that misreared and misschooled him, Rilke recoiled into introspectiveness and dilletante^([sic]) aestheticism, and long remained there; the world, or outwardness, was what had hurt him, was the enemy.1972, Triumph - Volume 7, page 33

Questions about misschooling

What is misschooling the present participle and gerund of?
Misschooling is the present participle and gerund of misschool.

Words near misschooling in the dictionary

  1. misscheduled
  2. misschedules
  3. misscheduling
  4. misschool
  5. misschooled
  6. misschooling
  7. misschools
  8. missclassification
  9. missclassified
  10. misscore
  11. misscored

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misschooling (page history and authors); misschool (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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