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misseeking

misseeking is the present participle and gerund of misseek.

Meaning of misseek

Verb

misseek (third-person singular simple present misseeks, present participle misseeking, simple past and past participle missought)

  1. (obsolete) To seek for wrongly.
    • And yet the thing that most is your desire, / Ye do misseek, with more travail and care!c. 1527–1542, Sir Thomas Wyatt, “Of the Mean and Sure Estate (written to John Poyntz)”, in Edward Arber, editor, The Surrey & Wyatt anthology, 1509-1547, published 1901, page 7

Questions about misseeking

What is misseeking the present participle and gerund of?
Misseeking is the present participle and gerund of misseek.

Words near misseeking in the dictionary

  1. missed the woods for the trees
  2. missed-call
  3. missee
  4. misseeing
  5. misseek
  6. misseeking
  7. misseeks
  8. misseem
  9. misseemed
  10. misseeming
  11. misseems

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