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miswending

miswending is the present participle and gerund of miswend.

Meaning of miswend

Verb

miswend (third-person singular simple present miswends, present participle miswending, simple past and past participle miswent)

  1. (obsolete) To go wrong; to stray.
    • It sitteth not in no maner wyse / A thefe for theft to syt in iudgement, / A lecherous man a lechour to chastise, / Nor he that hath al his lyfe spent / In waste & riote forfeted and miswent.1554, “The .iiii. chapter. Of the Strife bytwene Caligula Tiberius and Messalyne”, in A Memorial of Suche Princes, as Since the Tyme of King Richard the Seconde, Haue Been Unfortunate in the Realme...

Questions about miswending

What is miswending the present participle and gerund of?
Miswending is the present participle and gerund of miswend.

Words near miswending in the dictionary

  1. misweld
  2. miswelded
  3. miswelding
  4. miswelds
  5. miswend
  6. miswending
  7. miswends
  8. miswent
  9. miswield
  10. miswielded
  11. miswielding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miswending (page history and authors); miswend (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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