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missignalling

missignalling is the present participle and gerund of missignal.

Meaning of missignal

Verb

missignal (third-person singular simple present missignals, present participle (US) missignaling or (UK) missignalling, simple past and past participle (US) missignaled or (UK) missignalled)

  1. (transitive) To signal wrongly or in error
    • These problems refer to difficulties incurred when a staff member ( or members ) becomes confused in interaction and either missignals or gives confusing signals as to social role.1980, Duane S. Bishop, Behavioral Problems and the Disabled: Assessment and Management, page 368

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Questions about missignalling

What is missignalling the present participle and gerund of?
Missignalling is the present participle and gerund of missignal.

Words near missignalling in the dictionary

  1. missign
  2. missignal
  3. missignaled
  4. missignaling
  5. missignalled
  6. missignalling
  7. missignals
  8. missigned
  9. missignified
  10. missignifies
  11. missignify

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Adapted from Wiktionary: missignalling (page history and authors); missignal (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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