to misplace

Examples

• All

• Is Andrew Beckett the kind of lawyer who misplaces crucial documents?

  Philadelphia (1993)

• You would have misplaced them, forgotten them, lost them.

  Flubber (1997)

• But I seem to have misplaced my bill.

  Fast Charlie (2023)

• I seem to have misplaced my eyeglasses.

  Dead Man (1995)

• And Sophia was disorganized at home, often losing or misplacing her school work.

  YaleCourses

• I misplaced it somewhere.

  Premonition (2007)

• It's been temporarily misplaced.

  Broken City (2013)

• I often misplace my keys and spend a lot of time looking for them.

• She misplaced her wallet at the restaurant and had to return to find it.

• After moving, I realized I had misplaced several boxes of books.

Synonyms

M

to misfile

vsto misplace

3 4.3

To put a document in the wrong file by mistake

is the general act of wrong placement beyond just files or folders

M

to mislay

vsto misplace

1 4.3

To put something somewhere and later cannot find it again

is any act of putting an item in the wrong place, not only accidental loss

M

to mislocate

vsto misplace

1 6.8

To put something in the wrong place

is about putting something wrongly so it cannot be found, not only display error

How Lost

to lose

∞ 1.0

to misplace

104 3.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology