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missharpening

missharpening is the present participle and gerund 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 missharpening

What is missharpening the present participle and gerund of?
Missharpening is the present participle and gerund of missharpen.

Words near missharpening in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: missharpening (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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