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misstop

misstop verb: to stop badly or wrongly.

Verb

misstop (third-person singular simple present misstops, present participle misstopping, simple past and past participle misstopped)

  1. (rare) To stop badly or wrongly.
    • […] the slipping or breaking of a string or the misstopping of a fret.1894, Edna Lyall, To Right the Wrong, page 260
    • Even within an apparently English-only range, sounds are difficult enough to govern, as Quince's misstopped Prologue makes clear.2014, Michael Saenger, Interlinguicity, Internationality, and Shakespeare

Forms of misstop

third-person singular presentmisstops
present participlemisstopping
past participlemisstopped
pastmisstopped

Origin of misstop

From mis- + stop.

Questions about misstop

What does misstop mean?
Misstop means to stop badly or wrongly.
What part of speech is misstop?
Misstop is a verb.
What is the past tense of misstop?
The past tense of misstop is misstopped.

Words near misstop in the dictionary

  1. misstitching
  2. misstock
  3. misstocked
  4. misstocking
  5. misstocks
  6. misstop
  7. misstopped
  8. misstopping
  9. misstops
  10. misstore
  11. misstored

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