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miswound

miswound is the simple past and past participle of miswind.

Meaning of miswind

Verb

miswind (third-person singular simple present miswinds, present participle miswinding, simple past and past participle miswound)

  1. To wind incorrectly.
    • Furthermore, it will help to prevent ribbon failures because of miswinding, etc. which result from distortion of the fabric when one side of the ribbon receives more wear than the other.1964, Journal of Data Management, page 45

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Questions about miswound

What is miswound the simple past and past participle of?
Miswound is the simple past and past participle of miswind.

Words near miswound in the dictionary

  1. misworshipped
  2. misworshipper
  3. misworshippers
  4. misworshipping
  5. misworships
  6. miswound
  7. miswove
  8. miswoven
  9. miswrap
  10. miswrapped
  11. miswrapping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miswound (page history and authors); miswind (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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