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miswandering

miswandering is the present participle and gerund of miswander.

Meaning of miswander

Verb

miswander (third-person singular simple present miswanders, present participle miswandering, simple past and past participle miswandered)

  1. (intransitive) To wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray.
    • Her weary palfrey, closely as she might, Now well recover'd after long repast, In his proud furnitures she freshly dight, His late miswander'd ways now to remeasure right1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

Questions about miswandering

What is miswandering the present participle and gerund of?
Miswandering is the present participle and gerund of miswander.

Words near miswandering in the dictionary

  1. miswalked
  2. miswalking
  3. miswalks
  4. miswander
  5. miswandered
  6. miswandering
  7. miswanders
  8. miswant
  9. miswanted
  10. miswanting
  11. miswants

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miswandering (page history and authors); miswander (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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