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missummarise

missummarise is the alternative form of missummarize.

Meaning of missummarize

Verb

missummarize (third-person singular simple present missummarizes, present participle missummarizing, simple past and past participle missummarized)

  1. To summarize incorrectly; to give an inaccurate summary.
    • But he missummarizes the historical events themselves, imagines the entire tale as a tour de force in the amalgamation of historical materials, and concludes that this "Paradise Lost in provincial miniature" has been arranged to tell us that "neither a whipping post nor a maypole can stand for the...1984, Michael J. Colacurcio, The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales, page 603

Forms of missummarise

third-person singular presentmissummarises
present participlemissummarising
past participlemissummarised
pastmissummarised

Questions about missummarise

What is missummarise the alternative form of?
Missummarise is the alternative form of missummarize.

Words near missummarise in the dictionary

  1. missuggests
  2. missuit
  3. missuited
  4. missuiting
  5. missuits
  6. missummarise
  7. missummarised
  8. missummarises
  9. missummarising
  10. missummarize
  11. missummarized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: missummarise (page history and authors); missummarize (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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