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miswires

miswires is the third-person singular simple present indicative of miswire.

Meaning of miswire

Verb

miswire (third-person singular simple present miswires, present participle miswiring, simple past and past participle miswired)

  1. (transitive) To wire incorrectly.
    • Thus, when it happened on one occasion that the card readers were producing gibberish, the managers not only found the cause to be a miswired plug board, they also realized that they had stumbled onto a means for creating messages in cipher.2005, Kenneth S. Stephens, Juran, Quality, and a Century of Improvement, page 186

Questions about miswires

What is miswires the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Miswires is the third-person singular simple present indicative of miswire.

Words near miswires in the dictionary

  1. miswind
  2. miswinding
  3. miswinds
  4. miswire
  5. miswired
  6. miswires
  7. miswiring
  8. miswirings
  9. misword
  10. misworded
  11. miswording

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miswires (page history and authors); miswire (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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