Mislay

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To put in a place that is afterward forgotten: I have mislaid my hat.
  • v. To place or put down incorrectly: They mislaid the linoleum.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To leave or lay something in the wrong place and then forget where one put it.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To lay in a wrong place; to ascribe to a wrong source.
  • v. To lay in a place not recollected; to misplace; to lose.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To lay in a wrong or unaccustomed place; put in a place afterward forgotten: as, to mislay a letter or one's gloves.
  • To place or set down erroneously; give or assign a wrong location to.
  • Preterit of mislie.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. place (something) where one cannot find it again
    • Verb Form
    mislaid    mislaying    mislays   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    position    pose    put    set    lay    place   
    Variant
    mislaid   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    misplace    lose   
     
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