MISLAY (mislaid)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: mislaid   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does mislay mean? 

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

1. place (something) where one cannot find it again

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISLAY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they mislay    ... he / she / it mislays   
Past simple: mislaid   
Past participle: mislaid   
-ing form: mislaying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place (something) where one cannot find it again

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

mislay; misplace

Context example:

I misplaced my eyeglasses

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

lose (fail to get or obtain)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

I would write to him myself, but have mislaid his direction; and, as I hinted above, am afraid he took something in my conduct amiss.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A key was mislaid, Betsey accused of having got at his new hat, and some slight, but essential alteration of his uniform waistcoat, which he had been promised to have done for him, entirely neglected.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I cannot be sure of the exact date, for some of my memoranda upon the matter have been mislaid, but it must have been towards the end of the first year during which Holmes and I shared chambers in Baker Street.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)