misplace

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to place something where one cannot find it again

   I misplaced my eyeglasses.

2. 2
   verb

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

   I might have misplaced my umbrella; do you know where it is?

3. 3
   verb

   To apply one's talents inappropriately.

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

4. 4
   verb

   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.

5. 5
   verb

   place or position wrongly

Etymology

From mis- + place.