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missituating

missituating is the present participle and gerund of missituate.

Meaning of missituate

Verb

missituate (third-person singular simple present missituates, present participle missituating, simple past and past participle missituated)

  1. To situate incorrectly.
    • Donald W. Hanson mounts what, to my mind, is a not terribly convincing case that Hobbes has been missituated as a founding father of realism, and calls Hobbes's mode of thought "unrealistic," "apolitical," and "transhistorical.'"1995, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Women and War, page 88

Questions about missituating

What is missituating the present participle and gerund of?
Missituating is the present participle and gerund of missituate.

Words near missituating in the dictionary

  1. Mississippians
  2. Mississippis
  3. missituate
  4. missituated
  5. missituates
  6. missituating
  7. missive
  8. missives
  9. missized
  10. misslanted
  11. misslaughter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: missituating (page history and authors); missituate (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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