misplace
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /mɪsˈpleɪs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪs
Verb
[edit]misplace (third-person singular simple present misplaces, present participle misplacing, simple past and past participle misplaced)
- (transitive) To put something somewhere and then forget its location; to mislay.
- I might have misplaced my umbrella; do you know where it is?
- 2014 September 24, Jen Christensen, “Early memory lapses may be sign of dementia”, in CNN[1]:
- 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.
- (figuratively) To apply one's talents inappropriately.
- 2024 June 16, Senay Boztas, “‘The brain is very vulnerable’: Dutch cyclists urged to wear helmets as road deaths rise”, in The Guardian[4]:
- Bart Groothuijze, who runs the Castodian foundation promoting safer motorbiking, blames a misplaced sense of freedom and vanity.
- To put something in the wrong location.
- 1808, R.s. Skillern, A New System of English Grammar, page 128:
- 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.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to put something somewhere and then forget its location
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