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miswatering

miswatering is the present participle and gerund of miswater.

Meaning of miswater

Verb

miswater (third-person singular simple present miswaters, present participle miswatering, simple past and past participle miswatered)

  1. To water badly; to underwater, overwater or water at the wrong times.
    • As a further guide, however, the principal effects of miswatering are summarised below:1974, The Cactus and Succulent Journal of Great Britain, page 13

Questions about miswatering

What is miswatering the present participle and gerund of?
Miswatering is the present participle and gerund of miswater.

Words near miswatering in the dictionary

  1. miswashed
  2. miswashes
  3. miswashing
  4. miswater
  5. miswatered
  6. miswatering
  7. miswaters
  8. miswear
  9. miswearing
  10. miswears
  11. misweave

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miswatering (page history and authors); miswater (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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