Meaning

1 senses

  1. To stress incorrectly.

    a misstressed syllable

Origin

From mis- + stress.

From mis- + stress.

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Forms

misstresses, misstressing, misstressed, misstressed
Base formmisstress · to misstress
3rd person singularmisstresses
Present participlemisstressing
Past simplemisstressed
Past participlemisstressed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymisstress
he, she, itmisstresses

Past simpleLesson

all personsmisstressed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave misstressed
he, she, ithas misstressed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill misstress

Synonyms

1 synonyms
misemphasize

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
misspellmisspellingmisstepmistB2mistakeA2

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