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missharpened

missharpened is the simple past and past participle of missharpen.

Meaning of missharpen

Verb

missharpen (third-person singular simple present missharpens, present participle missharpening, simple past and past participle missharpened)

  1. To sharpen incorrectly.
    • It is our opinion that this missharpening and thus consequent misuse would be the basic and primary source of the failure.1981, Charles O. Smith, Products Liability: Are You Vulnerable?, page 128

Questions about missharpened

What is missharpened the simple past and past participle of?
Missharpened is the simple past and past participle of missharpen.

Words near missharpened in the dictionary

  1. misshare
  2. misshared
  3. misshares
  4. missharing
  5. missharpen
  6. missharpened
  7. missharpening
  8. missharpens
  9. misshelve
  10. misshelved
  11. misshelves

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Adapted from Wiktionary: missharpened (page history and authors); missharpen (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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