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misseal

misseal verb: to seal improperly.

Verb

misseal (third-person singular simple present misseals, present participle missealing, simple past and past participle missealed)

  1. To seal improperly.
    • A deed of the premises to plaintiff was in every respect regular and sufficient to convey the legal title except that it was missealed and therefore conveyed only an equitable title.1907, Current Law - Volume 8, page 1574
    • In blind applications, these old approaches took much longer and risked missealing some of the intended locations.2004, Jeffrey J. Fox, Richard C. Gregory, The Dollarization Discipline, page 190

Forms of misseal

third-person singular presentmisseals
present participlemissealing
past participlemissealed
pastmissealed

Origin of misseal

From mis- + seal.

Questions about misseal

What does misseal mean?
Misseal means to seal improperly.
What part of speech is misseal?
Misseal is a verb.
What is the past tense of misseal?
The past tense of misseal is missealed.

Words near misseal in the dictionary

  1. misscribed
  2. misscribes
  3. misscribing
  4. misscription
  5. misscriptions
  6. misseal
  7. missealed
  8. missealing
  9. misseals
  10. misseasoned
  11. misseat

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