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missummarizing

missummarizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about missummarizing

What is missummarizing the present participle and gerund of?
Missummarizing is the present participle and gerund of missummarize.

Words near missummarizing in the dictionary

  1. missummarises
  2. missummarising
  3. missummarize
  4. missummarized
  5. missummarizes
  6. missummarizing
  7. missummation
  8. missummations
  9. missuppose
  10. missupposed
  11. missupposes

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