misaddress

verb

misaddress

verb

Etymology From mis- + address.

1

To address (a letter, etc.) incorrectly.

  • She had written it to him before she died, but had misaddressed it — and hence the postal delay.1970, Queen's Quarterly, volume 77, page 35:

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