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misswing

misswing is the alternative form of mis-swing.

Meaning of mis-swing

Verb

mis-swing (third-person singular simple present mis-swings, present participle mis-swinging, simple past and past participle mis-swung)

  1. To swing incorrectly.
    • And Hank taught the youngster to deliberately mis-swing at a certain pitch early in the game; later, in a decisive situation, the pitcher might give him the same pitch again, and he could slam it.2011, Mark Kurlansky, Hank Greenberg: The Hero who Didn't Want to be One, page 117

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Forms of misswing

Verb
third-person singular presentmisswings
present participlemisswinging
past participlemisswung
pastmisswung
Noun
pluralmisswings

Questions about misswing

What is misswing the alternative form of?
Misswing is the alternative form of mis-swing.

Words near misswing in the dictionary

  1. misswaying
  2. missways
  3. misswear
  4. misswearing
  5. misswears
  6. misswing
  7. misswinging
  8. misswings
  9. misswitch
  10. misswitched
  11. misswitches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misswing (page history and authors); mis-swing (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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