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misstops

misstops is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 misstops

What is misstops the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Misstops is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misstop.

Words near misstops in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misstops (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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