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miswears

miswears is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 miswears

What is miswears the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Miswears is the third-person singular simple present indicative of miswear.

Words near miswears in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miswears (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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