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missubtracting

missubtracting is the present participle and gerund of missubtract.

Meaning of missubtract

Verb

missubtract (third-person singular simple present missubtracts, present participle missubtracting, simple past and past participle missubtracted)

  1. To subtract incorrectly.
    • Who woefully spelled that word? Not I! or missubtracted checks in the hundreds column?1994, Dorothy L. Mercer, Injury: Learning to Live Again, page 101

Questions about missubtracting

What is missubtracting the present participle and gerund of?
Missubtracting is the present participle and gerund of missubtract.

Words near missubtracting in the dictionary

  1. missubmits
  2. missubmitted
  3. missubmitting
  4. missubtract
  5. missubtracted
  6. missubtracting
  7. missubtraction
  8. missubtractions
  9. missubtracts
  10. missuggest
  11. missuggested

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Adapted from Wiktionary: missubtracting (page history and authors); missubtract (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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