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Misplace
//mɪsˈpleɪs// verb
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Verb
- 1 To put something somewhere and then forget its location; to mislay. transitive
"I might have misplaced my umbrella; do you know where it is?"
- 2 place or position wrongly; put in the wrong position wordnet
- 3 To apply one's talents inappropriately. figuratively
"Bart Groothuijze, who runs the Castodian foundation promoting safer motorbiking, blames a misplaced sense of freedom and vanity."
- 4 place (something) where one cannot find it again wordnet
- 5 To put something in the wrong location.
"Every word in English of more than one Syllable has a fixed accent established by the custom of the language, to misplace which is as offensive to the propriety of speech, as to missound the vowel."
Etymology
From mis- + place.
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