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misplace

verb
/mɪsˈpleɪs/

Etymology

From mis- + place.

  1. derived from *pleth₂-✻ — “to spread”
  2. derived from πλατεῖα
  3. derived from platēa — “plaza, wide street”
  4. derived from place — “place, an open space”
  5. inherited from plæċe — “place, an open space, street”
  6. inherited from place
  7. formed as misplace — “mis- + place”

Definitions

  1. To put something somewhere and then forget its location

    To put something somewhere and then forget its location; to mislay.

    • I might have misplaced my umbrella; do you know where it is?
    • She misplaces her things regularly (for example her phone, keys or bank card).

  2. To apply one's talents inappropriately.

    • Bart Groothuijze, who runs the Castodian foundation promoting safer motorbiking, blames a misplaced sense of freedom and vanity.

  3. 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.

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Derived

misplacer

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misplace. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA