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missuppose

missuppose verb: to suppose incorrectly.

Verb

missuppose (third-person singular simple present missupposes, present participle missupposing, simple past and past participle missupposed)

  1. (transitive) To suppose incorrectly.
    • There was, indeed, another Boort, or Bors, afterwards king of Benoic; but the translator has evidently missupposed Ban-Boozt to be the name of one king, and Bos that of the other.1885, Ancient English Metrical Romances, page 4
    • The circumstances complained of by the SEC are best controlled by the confluence of the competitive forces of the marketplace rather than by an agency that missupposes the mutual fund industry as being like a public utility.1967, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, Mutual Fund Legislation of 1967: Hearings..., page 876

Forms of missuppose

third-person singular presentmissupposes
present participlemissupposing
past participlemissupposed
pastmissupposed

Origin of missuppose

From mis- + suppose.

Questions about missuppose

What does missuppose mean?
Missuppose means to suppose incorrectly.
What part of speech is missuppose?
Missuppose is a verb.
What is the past tense of missuppose?
The past tense of missuppose is missupposed.

Words near missuppose in the dictionary

  1. missummarized
  2. missummarizes
  3. missummarizing
  4. missummation
  5. missummations
  6. missuppose
  7. missupposed
  8. missupposes
  9. missupposing
  10. missupposition
  11. missuppositions

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