Word.ws English Dictionary

miswalk

miswalk verb: to walk along the wrong path.

Verb

miswalk (third-person singular simple present miswalks, present participle miswalking, simple past and past participle miswalked)

  1. (ambitransitive, figuratively, sometimes) To walk along the wrong path.
    • For there is another spirit near man, whose nature, work, and delight is to cause man to misunderstand, and miswalk by the very scriptures; and will bring things as warmly and (as it were) clearly to him, as he can from scriptures, purposely to deceive and mislead him.1863, Isaac Penington, The Works of Isaac Penington, page 31
    • Sue withdrew to the kitchen, very much aware that she had committed a folly as bad or worse than miswalking a minuet.1941, Cyril Harris, Richard Pryne: A Novel of the American Revolution, page 87

Examples of miswalk in a sentence

  • This visit was probably about the concern of Fenwick's business and land titles, rather than any miswalking or violation of Discipline.1991, Salem Quarter: The Quakers of Salem Quarterly Meeting of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in Southern...
  • The stroller who barely knows where he is going still keeps to the right path and stops at his destination without having miswalked.2006, Adam Phillips, Sigmund Freud, The Penguin Freud Reader:

Forms of miswalk

third-person singular presentmiswalks
present participlemiswalking
past participlemiswalked
pastmiswalked

Origin of miswalk

From mis- + walk.

Questions about miswalk

What does miswalk mean?
Miswalk means to walk along the wrong path.
How do you use miswalk in a sentence?
This visit was probably about the concern of Fenwick's business and land titles, rather than any miswalking or violation of Discipline.
What part of speech is miswalk?
Miswalk is a verb.
What is the past tense of miswalk?
The past tense of miswalk is miswalked.

Words near miswalk in the dictionary

  1. misvouching
  2. miswaak
  3. miswaaks
  4. miswak
  5. miswaks
  6. miswalk
  7. miswalked
  8. miswalking
  9. miswalks
  10. miswander
  11. miswandered

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: miswalk (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “miswalk.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/miswalk. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.