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mistransform

mistransform verb: to transform incorrectly.

Verb

mistransform (third-person singular simple present mistransforms, present participle mistransforming, simple past and past participle mistransformed)

  1. To transform incorrectly.
    • the oftener it is thought upon, the more it will be lamented by every honest heart, that God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, that Christ who is God and Man, our gracious Lord and Redeemer, should be more traduced, and more grossly mistransformed through liberty of prophesying (as they term it)...1844, Thomas Jackson, The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D, page 45
    • […] several of the test scores appear to have been mistransformed.1998, Cecilia Elena Rouse, Private School Vouchers and Student Achievement, page 596

Forms of mistransform

third-person singular presentmistransforms
present participlemistransforming
past participlemistransformed
pastmistransformed

Origin of mistransform

From mis- + transform.

Questions about mistransform

What does mistransform mean?
Mistransform means to transform incorrectly.
What part of speech is mistransform?
Mistransform is a verb.
What is the past tense of mistransform?
The past tense of mistransform is mistransformed.

Words near mistransform in the dictionary

  1. mistranscripts
  2. mistransfer
  3. mistransferred
  4. mistransferring
  5. mistransfers
  6. mistransform
  7. mistransformation
  8. mistransformations
  9. mistransformed
  10. mistransforming
  11. mistransforms

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