Are you certain that you lost your book, or did you merely misplace it?
Source: tatoeba (322085)
Misplace
//mɪsˈpleɪs//
Synonyms for "misplace" (13 found)
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Translations
40 translations across 24 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- ضيع verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
Bulgarian
1 entries- забутвам verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
Catalan
1 entries- perdre verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 擱忘 /搁忘 verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
- 誤放 /误放 verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- coytmaq verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
Czech
2 entries- založit verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
- zašantročit verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
Dutch
1 entries- misleggen verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
Finnish
2 entries- hukata verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
- kadottaa verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
French
1 entries- égarer verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
German
1 entries- verlegen verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
Greek
1 entries- παραπετώ verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
Hungarian
4 entries- elhagy verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
- elhány verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
- elkever verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
- elkeveredik nála verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
Italian
1 entries- smarrire verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
Japanese
1 entries- 置き忘れる verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
Khiamniungan Naga
2 entries- thāngvā verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
- thāngvā verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
Latin
1 entries- āmittō verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
Norwegian
2 entries- forlegge verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
- misforstå verb (to apply one's talents inappropriately)
Polish
3 entries- zagubić verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
- zapodziać verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
- zgubić verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
Portuguese
1 entries- perder verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
Russian
3 entries- заложи́ть verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
- засу́нуть verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
- затеря́ть verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
Spanish
2 entries- extraviar verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
- traspapelar verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
Swedish
1 entries- förlägga verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
Urdu
2 entries- گمانا verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
- گَن٘وانا verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
Venetan
1 entries- pèrdar verb (to put something somewhere and then forget its location)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Tom has a tendency to misplace things.
Source: tatoeba (3000825)
I might have misplaced my umbrella; do you know where it is?
Source: wiktionary
At least once a week a patient will come into Dr. Thomas Loepfe’s busy geriatric clinic in Lacrosse, Wisconsin, with a worry. She will tell him she’s been misplacing her glasses lately, or he’ll say he’s concerned about losing the car keys.
Source: wiktionary
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