Associations to the word «Misplace»

Wiktionary

MISPLACE, verb. (transitive) To put something somewhere and then forget its location; to mislay
MISPLACE, verb. (figuratively) To apply one's talents inappropriately.
MISPLACE, verb. To put something in the wrong location.

Dictionary definition

MISPLACE, verb. Place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses".
MISPLACE, verb. Place or position wrongly; put in the wrong position; "misplaced modifiers".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne