verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To put badly or wrongly. rare, transitive

   "It all springs from misputting the problem."

2. 2
   To put out; to inconvenience or disturb. US, dialectal, rare, transitive

   "But I don't like to misput nobody."

Synonyms

All synonyms

mislaymisplacedout of place

Example

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"It all springs from misputting the problem."

Etymology

From mis- + put.

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