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missounded

missounded is the simple past and past participle of missound.

Meaning of missound

Verb

missound (third-person singular simple present missounds, present participle missounding, simple past and past participle missounded)

  1. To sound or pronounce wrongly.
    • Every word in English of more than one Syllable has a fixed accent established by the custom of the language, to misplace which is as offensive to the propriety of speech, as to missound the vowel.1808, R.s. Skillern, A New System of English Grammar, page 128

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Questions about missounded

What is missounded the simple past and past participle of?
Missounded is the simple past and past participle of missound.

Words near missounded in the dictionary

  1. Missoula
  2. Missoula County
  3. Missoulian
  4. Missoulians
  5. missound
  6. missounded
  7. missounding
  8. missounds
  9. Missourah
  10. Missouran
  11. Missourans

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