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MISLAY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: mislaid   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place (something) where one cannot find it again

Example:

I misplaced my eyeglasses

Synonyms:

mislay; misplace

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "mislay" is one way to...):

lose (fail to get or obtain)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

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