Word.ws English Dictionary

misspreading

misspreading is the present participle and gerund of misspread.

Meaning of misspread

Verb

misspread (third-person singular simple present misspreads, present participle misspreading, simple past and past participle misspread)

  1. To spread incorrectly or inappropriately.
    • Never shall Obloquy your mansion seek, Or Anguish blight the roses on your cheek; Nor vagrant Zephyr insolent misspread The hazel-curling tresses of thy envied head!1790, Anthony Pasquin (psudonym of John Williams), A Postscript to the New Bath Guide. A poem, page 82

See all 2 meanings of misspread

Questions about misspreading

What is misspreading the present participle and gerund of?
Misspreading is the present participle and gerund of misspread.

Words near misspreading in the dictionary

  1. misspray
  2. missprayed
  3. misspraying
  4. missprays
  5. misspread
  6. misspreading
  7. misspreads
  8. missprision
  9. missprisions
  10. misspun
  11. misstack

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: misspreading (page history and authors); misspread (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “misspreading.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/misspreading. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.