"misengender" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: misengenders [present, singular, third-person], misengendering [participle, present], misengendered [participle, past], misengendered [past]
Etymology: mis- + engender Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mis|engender}} mis- + engender Head templates: {{en-verb}} misengender (third-person singular simple present misengenders, present participle misengendering, simple past and past participle misengendered)
  1. To engender wrongly or badly; to misbeget.
    Sense id: en-misengender-en-verb--h6XUYbr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with mis-

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1970, Richard Church, A Harvest of Mushrooms: And Other Sporadic Essays, page 73",
          "text": "Grigson sums up this almost utilitarian aspect of the state of detachment thus: Not visited enough, each poet knows His deadly fondness for his own mishaps, The way he fails to sort the full-time births From all his misengendered scraps.",
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