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misstart

misstart verb: to start badly or wrongly.

Verb

misstart (third-person singular simple present misstarts, present participle misstarting, simple past and past participle misstarted)

  1. To start badly or wrongly.

Forms of misstart

third-person singular presentmisstarts
present participlemisstarting
past participlemisstarted
pastmisstarted

Origin of misstart

From mis- + start.

Questions about misstart

What does misstart mean?
Misstart means to start badly or wrongly.
What part of speech is misstart?
Misstart is a verb.
What is the past tense of misstart?
The past tense of misstart is misstarted.

Words near misstart in the dictionary

  1. misstamps
  2. misstaple
  3. misstapled
  4. misstaples
  5. misstapling
  6. misstart
  7. misstarted
  8. misstarting
  9. misstarts
  10. misstate
  11. misstated

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