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misswayed

misswayed is the simple past and past participle of missway.

Meaning of missway

Verb

missway (third-person singular simple present missways, present participle misswaying, simple past and past participle misswayed)

  1. To sway or influence to an unfortunate result.
    • Through misswaying, it seemed to decline.1603, John Davies, Microcosmos, page 60

Questions about misswayed

What is misswayed the simple past and past participle of?
Misswayed is the simple past and past participle of missway.

Words near misswayed in the dictionary

  1. misswallow
  2. misswallowed
  3. misswallowing
  4. misswallows
  5. missway
  6. misswayed
  7. misswaying
  8. missways
  9. misswear
  10. misswearing
  11. misswears

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misswayed (page history and authors); missway (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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