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misteaches

misteaches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misteach.

Meaning of misteach

Verb

misteach (third-person singular simple present misteaches, present participle misteaching, simple past and past participle mistaught)

  1. To teach incorrectly.
    • Men are mistaught many things: that violence and control of others are acceptable, that they are strong and therefore entitled to be violent. Similarly they are taught that they are not victims; that they can and should take care of themselves. For gay men, this heritage can lead to violence in...1989 April 22, Jay Reed, “Naming and Confronting Gay Male Battering”, in Gay Community News, page 9

Questions about misteaches

What is misteaches the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Misteaches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misteach.

Words near misteaches in the dictionary

  1. mistbow
  2. mistbows
  3. misteach
  4. misteacher
  5. misteachers
  6. misteaches
  7. misteaching
  8. misteachings
  9. misted
  10. misted over
  11. misted up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misteaches (page history and authors); misteach (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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