misstop

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verb

To stop badly or wrongly.

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Meanings

verbmisstop (third-person singular simple present misstops, present participle misstopping, simple past and past participle misstopped)

present singular third person misstops · participle present misstopping · participle past misstopped · past misstopped

  1. rareTo stop badly or wrongly.

    […] the slipping or breaking of a string or the misstopping of a fret.

    1894, Edna Lyall, To Right the Wrong, page 260
    1 more example

    Even within an apparently English-only range, sounds are difficult enough to govern, as Quince's misstopped Prologue makes clear.

    2014, Michael Saenger, Interlinguicity, Internationality, and Shakespeare

Origin

From mis- + stop.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

mispostmisspot
Cite this entry
APA

misstop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misstop

MLA

“misstop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misstop. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misstop,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misstop.

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