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miswalking

miswalking is the present participle and gerund of miswalk.

Meaning of miswalk

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

Questions about miswalking

What is miswalking the present participle and gerund of?
Miswalking is the present participle and gerund of miswalk.

Words near miswalking in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miswalking (page history and authors); 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.

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