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misstressed

misstressed is the simple past and past participle of misstress.

Meaning of misstress

Verb

misstress (third-person singular simple present misstresses, present participle misstressing, simple past and past participle misstressed)

  1. To stress incorrectly.
    • a misstressed syllable
    Synonyms:
    misemphasize

Questions about misstressed

What is misstressed the simple past and past participle of?
Misstressed is the simple past and past participle of misstress.

Words near misstressed in the dictionary

  1. misstored
  2. misstores
  3. misstoring
  4. misstowed
  5. misstress
  6. misstressed
  7. misstresses
  8. misstressing
  9. misstrike
  10. misstrikes
  11. misstriking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misstressed (page history and authors); misstress (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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