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miswashing

miswashing is the present participle and gerund of miswash.

Meaning of miswash

Verb

miswash (third-person singular simple present miswashes, present participle miswashing, simple past and past participle miswashed)

  1. To wash badly.
    • Two volumes of Elia have been spoilt by the man to whom they were entrusted, by miswashing sheets sent to him to clean.1969, Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, The Journals of Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, 1879-1922, page 42

Questions about miswashing

What is miswashing the present participle and gerund of?
Miswashing is the present participle and gerund of miswash.

Words near miswashing in the dictionary

  1. miswarranting
  2. miswarrants
  3. miswash
  4. miswashed
  5. miswashes
  6. miswashing
  7. miswater
  8. miswatered
  9. miswatering
  10. miswaters
  11. miswear

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miswashing (page history and authors); miswash (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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