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mistraining

mistraining is the present participle and gerund of mistrain.

Meaning of mistrain

Verb

mistrain (third-person singular simple present mistrains, present participle mistraining, simple past and past participle mistrained)

  1. (transitive) To draw (something) badly or in the wrong direction.
    • For she by force is still fro me detayned, / And with corruptfull brybes is to untruth mis-trayned.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about mistraining

What is mistraining the present participle and gerund of?
Mistraining is the present participle and gerund of mistrain.

Words near mistraining in the dictionary

  1. mistrailed
  2. mistrailing
  3. mistrails
  4. mistrain
  5. mistrained
  6. mistraining
  7. mistrains
  8. mistral
  9. Mistralian
  10. Mistralian norm
  11. mistrals

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