misplace

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To put something somewhere and then forget its location; to mislay. transitive
    — I might have misplaced my umbrella; do you know where it is?
  2. To apply one's talents inappropriately. figuratively
    — 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.

词形变化

misplaces present,singular,third-person misplacing participle,present misplaced participle,past misplaced past

词汇关系

近义词
mislay
衍生词
misplacer

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
English place
English misplace
From mis- + place.
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