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mistrace

mistrace verb: to trace incorrectly.

Verb

mistrace (third-person singular simple present mistraces, present participle mistracing, simple past and past participle mistraced)

  1. (transitive) To trace incorrectly.
    • As it turned out, Pacific Telephone had mistraced the call and sent the FBI on a wild-goose chase […]1984, California, volume 9, page 108

Forms of mistrace

third-person singular presentmistraces
present participlemistracing
past participlemistraced
pastmistraced

Origin of mistrace

From mis- + trace.

Questions about mistrace

What does mistrace mean?
Mistrace means to trace incorrectly.
What part of speech is mistrace?
Mistrace is a verb.
What is the past tense of mistrace?
The past tense of mistrace is mistraced.

Words near mistrace in the dictionary

  1. mistouched
  2. mistouches
  3. mistouching
  4. mistpouffer
  5. mistpouffers
  6. mistrace
  7. mistraced
  8. mistraces
  9. mistracing
  10. mistrack
  11. mistracked

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