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misstayed

misstayed is the simple past and past participle of misstay.

Meaning of misstay

Verb

misstay (third-person singular simple present misstays, present participle misstaying, simple past and past participle misstayed)

  1. To become caught in irons when changing tack.

Questions about misstayed

What is misstayed the simple past and past participle of?
Misstayed is the simple past and past participle of misstay.

Words near misstayed in the dictionary

  1. misstation
  2. misstationed
  3. misstationing
  4. misstations
  5. misstay
  6. misstayed
  7. misstaying
  8. misstays
  9. missteer
  10. missteered
  11. missteering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misstayed (page history and authors); misstay (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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