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Misplace   Listen
verb
Misplace  v. t.  (past & past part. misplaced; pres. part. misplacing)  
1.
To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.
2.
To place in a location that one does not recall; to mislay; to lose.





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"Misplace" Quotes from Famous Books



... drink a cup of coffee ungracefully, and slop yourself with it, by your awkward manner of holding it; nor should I like to see your coat buttoned, or your shoes buckled awry. But I should be outrageous, if I heard you mutter your words unintelligibly, stammer, in your speech, or hesitate, misplace, and mistake in your narrations; and I should run away from you with greater rapidity, if possible, than I should now run to embrace you, if I found you destitute of all those graces which I have set my heart upon their making you one day, 'omnibus ...
— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield


Words linked to "Misplace" :   lay, position, mislay, set, pose, place, lose, put, misplacement


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