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misvote

misvote verb: to vote incorrectly.

Verb

misvote (third-person singular simple present misvotes, present participle misvoting, simple past and past participle misvoted)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To vote incorrectly.
    • Perhaps she thought that by taking the huge gamble of misspeaking one more time about her narrow escape on the tarmac at Tuzla, she could compensate for misvoting on Iraq.2008 March 30, Frank Rich, “Hillary’s St. Patrick’s Day Massacre”, in New York Times

Forms of misvote

third-person singular presentmisvotes
present participlemisvoting
past participlemisvoted
pastmisvoted

Origin of misvote

From mis- + vote.

Questions about misvote

What does misvote mean?
Misvote means to vote incorrectly.
What part of speech is misvote?
Misvote is a verb.
What is the past tense of misvote?
The past tense of misvote is misvoted.

Words near misvote in the dictionary

  1. misvocalizing
  2. misvoice
  3. misvoiced
  4. misvoices
  5. misvoicing
  6. misvote
  7. misvoted
  8. misvotes
  9. misvoth
  10. misvoting
  11. misvouch

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