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misspeeding

misspeeding is the present participle and gerund of misspeed.

Meaning of misspeed

Verb

misspeed (third-person singular simple present misspeeds, present participle misspeeding, simple past and past participle missped)

  1. To fail in an attempt to speed something along.
    • Is there anything in which the nurse has failed? the hostess come short? the huntress missped? the pretty waiter-girl blundered?1874, Julie P. Smith, Ten Old Maids: And Five of Them Were Wise, and Five of Them Were Foolish, page 369

Questions about misspeeding

What is misspeeding the present participle and gerund of?
Misspeeding is the present participle and gerund of misspeed.

Words near misspeeding in the dictionary

  1. misspeculation
  2. misspeculations
  3. missped
  4. misspeech
  5. misspeed
  6. misspeeding
  7. misspeeds
  8. misspell
  9. misspellable
  10. misspelled
  11. misspeller

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misspeeding (page history and authors); misspeed (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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