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missharpens

missharpens is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 missharpens

What is missharpens the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Missharpens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of missharpen.

Words near missharpens in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: missharpens (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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