miswearing
miswearing is the present participle and gerund of miswear.
Meaning of miswear
Verb
miswear (third-person singular simple present miswears, present participle miswearing, simple past miswore, past participle misworn)
- To wear badly or wrongly.
- the people buy in effect chaffe for corn , for that which is miswrought will miswearc. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court
Questions about miswearing
- What is miswearing the present participle and gerund of?
- Miswearing is the present participle and gerund of miswear.
Words near miswearing in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: miswearing (page history and authors); miswear (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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