MISAPPLY (misapplied)

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Irregular inflected form: misapplied   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does misapply mean? 

• MISAPPLY (verb)
  The verb MISAPPLY has 1 sense:

1. apply to a wrong thing or person; apply badly or incorrectly

  Familiarity information: MISAPPLY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISAPPLY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they misapply    ... he / she / it misapplies   
Past simple: misapplied   
Past participle: misapplied   
-ing form: misapplying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Apply to a wrong thing or person; apply badly or incorrectly

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

misapply; misuse

Context example:

You are misapplying the name of this religious group

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

apply; employ; use; utilise; utilize (put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

misapplication (wrong use or application)

 Context examples 

Better be without sense, than misapply it as you do.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But while she smiled at a graciousness so misapplied, she could not reflect on the mean-spirited folly from which it sprung, nor observe the studied attentions with which the Miss Steeles courted its continuance, without thoroughly despising them all four.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)