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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)

  1. (obsolete, rare) 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

  1. miswater
  2. miswatered
  3. miswatering
  4. miswaters
  5. miswear
  6. miswearing
  7. miswears
  8. misweave
  9. misweaves
  10. misweaving
  11. miswed

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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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