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mistracing

mistracing is the present participle and gerund of mistrace.

Meaning of mistrace

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

Questions about mistracing

What is mistracing the present participle and gerund of?
Mistracing is the present participle and gerund of mistrace.

Words near mistracing in the dictionary

  1. mistpouffer
  2. mistpouffers
  3. mistrace
  4. mistraced
  5. mistraces
  6. mistracing
  7. mistrack
  8. mistracked
  9. mistracking
  10. mistracks
  11. mistrade

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mistracing (page history and authors); mistrace (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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