misput
verbEtymology From mis- + put.
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Rare To put badly or wrongly.
- It all springs from misputting the problem.1911, The Journal of Philosophy, volume 8, page 586:
- But I don't like to misput nobody.1995, Janice Holt Giles, The Land Beyond the Mountains, page 134:
- "Would you mind if I came out and saw her for myself? I wouldn't be there to misput anyone, just to see her well," Dr. Quinton said.2020, Missy Priest, Child of the Wilderness: