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misspun

misspun is the simple past and past participle of misspin.

Meaning of misspin

Verb

misspin (third-person singular simple present misspins, present participle misspinning, simple past and past participle misspun)

  1. To spin badly (any sense)
    • Were some ordained their lives in pits to spend, From infant years until their latter end, Nor see creation, hill nor dell nor grove, Their threads of life misspun, the web miswove, Without due knowledge, in their dark abode, Of fellow-man, far less the living God?1861, John Ritchie, The Sabbeth Bell. A Poem for the People, page 14

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Questions about misspun

What is misspun the simple past and past participle of?
Misspun is the simple past and past participle of misspin.

Words near misspun in the dictionary

  1. misspread
  2. misspreading
  3. misspreads
  4. missprision
  5. missprisions
  6. misspun
  7. misstack
  8. misstacked
  9. misstacking
  10. misstacks
  11. misstaff

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misspun (page history and authors); misspin (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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