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misstopped

misstopped is the simple past and past participle of misstop.

Meaning of misstop

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

Questions about misstopped

What is misstopped the simple past and past participle of?
Misstopped is the simple past and past participle of misstop.

Words near misstopped in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misstopped (page history and authors); misstop (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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