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miswarned

miswarned is the simple past and past participle of miswarn.

Meaning of miswarn

Verb

miswarn (third-person singular simple present miswarns, present participle miswarning, simple past and past participle miswarned)

  1. To warn of something that is not a threat; to cry wolf.
    • Our friend, Commander de Champeaux, was not miswarned when he was told by the squaw he claimed as his squaw, 'to look out and not cross Chief Ma-chan-qua's pathway.'1905, Julia M. Baker Stapleford, Wah-see-ola, the Light of the Tribes at the Meeting Waters, page 180

Questions about miswarned

What is miswarned the simple past and past participle of?
Miswarned is the simple past and past participle of miswarn.

Words near miswarned in the dictionary

  1. miswant
  2. miswanted
  3. miswanting
  4. miswants
  5. miswarn
  6. miswarned
  7. miswarning
  8. miswarns
  9. miswarrant
  10. miswarranted
  11. miswarranting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miswarned (page history and authors); miswarn (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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